Word: lates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reply was too general to please International Falls, where the late Citizen Virkula was not regarded as an "international criminal." Editorial writers read the President's statement and wrote: "Is that all" . . . "inadequate" . . . "It is not enough for the President to 'deplore' ". . . "the President's answer is as full of holes as Henry Virkula...
...much fish as is needed to keep the factory busy. Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., organized in 1922, last year showed net sales of $7,969,767, net earnings of $637,085. The company was bought in 1923 by Ira Maurice Cobe, after Leonard Wood Jr., famed son of the late great Philippine Governor General, and various other predecessors, had failed to keep Atlantic Coast Fisheries from bankruptcy. Under the Cobe-Taylor management the company has prospered and expanded...
...late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, famed Manhattan and Chicago financier, was a fantastic gambler.? But unlike most of his sort he left a large fortune. Last week the Gates fortune was making a hurly-burly in the Gatesian town of St. Charles, Ill. There a new post-office is to be built. Mrs. Delora Angell Norris, niece of the late Mr. Gates, who received most of the Gates estate and controls some $80,000,000 (Texas Oil Co.) wants it built on the East bank of the Fox River, where she owns a community house, a cinema...
...Gates derived his nickname from rumors that million-dollar stakes were reached at his "ambling sessions in Manhattan's late Waldorf- Astoria hotel. He bet on anything, gambled in stocks, grain and cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar...
Campolo enjoys the distinction of being already rich. Son of a South American cotton-grower he has had three automobiles since he first learned to drive. The late great Tex Rickard had heard of him but just as he intended bringing him to the U. S. Campolo was knocked out by Nebraska's Monte Munn. He intends retrieving his laurels next month by fighting the winner of the Heeney-Maloney fight He said that if he were knocked out in the U. S. he would immediately return to the Argentine...