Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months Mayor Walker had been keeping city voters in a state of theoretical suspense as to his candidacy.* He had let it be known that he was considering a return to private life to get rich, that he had many an offer to capitalize his personality. Last week he put all his offers aside, accepted the "call of public duty...
Prizefighter Gene Tunney a year ago flew in a Sikorsky Amphibian the 150 miles from Speculator, N. Y., to New York City. To insure his life for $300,000 and the plane for $30,000 during the single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another company might have charged more, another less. No one knows what is a fair rate for aviation insurance risks. Whatever standards exist are constantly fluctuating and depend on a multitude of conditions and contingencies. To help the insurance companies fix standards the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics...
Aviation insurance includes, besides personal accident and life risks, risks against planes, cargoes, airports, public liability, passengers, employes, fires, windstorms, thefts. The usual life or accident policy generally forbids flying. Four Manhattan underwriters predominate in the nation's aviation insurance business-Aero Underwriters Corp., United States Aviation Underwriters, Wm. H. McGee & Co., Associated Aviation Underwriters. The last is the most powerful. Formed last March it groups 13 fire and marine insurance companies and three casualty companies, whose aggregate assets were then...
Ildefonso Schuster, son of a stalwart Swiss-German officer in the Vatican's famed Swiss Guard, is accounted an Italian Cardinal because he was born in Rome. A Benedictine, he has devoted his life to scholarship. An intimate friend of Pius XI, he reputedly earned great papal admiration by a treatise on the Council of Nicaea which he presented at the 16th centenary celebration of the Council, held in the Vatican...
Milly Burden became pregnant in a small Virginia town. Her lover, Martin Welding, a nervewracked U. S. soldier, had returned to France after the War. Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others. Furthermore Milly reminded Lawyer Littlepage of his daughter, Mary Victoria. Encouraged by softness, Milly confided her worry over Welding's nerves. In return, Lawyer Littlepage had Mary Victoria, who was in Europe, look Welding...