Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Methodists of four of the city's biggest churches-Central, California Street, Wesley, Howard Street-sold their properties, pooled $800,000 to form a superchurch which they called Temple Methodist. Their optimism the Methodists expressed by building a 27-story hotel, highest on the Pacific Coast, at Leavenworth & McAllister streets in downtown San Francisco. The William Taylor Hotel, with a cathedral-like, 1,300-seat church concealed in its second, third and fourth floors, would support Temple Church, everyone felt, retire its $1,550,000 in first mortgage bonds at maturity. But more funds were needed and before...
Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent...
...Denver, Elmer Franklin McVay, 47, who since 1911 has spent all but 39 months of his life in jail, stole a typewriter on which to write his prison memoirs, was arrested and sentenced to three years in Leavenworth...
...love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful ways to success, disgrace or both...
...spent a year in Platte County Jail in Missouri writing a treatise on "A System of Accounts for A Small Consumer's Co-Operative." Later as a trusty bookkeeper in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth he: 1) met his boyhood idol Big Bill Hay wood and 2) was allowed to study all the books on economics and socialism he wanted. A week after he was paroled he joined the Communist Party, spent five years with William Z. Foster boring from within the American Federation of Labor, later visited Russia, passed two years as a union organizer in Hankow, returned...