Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness's disbelief in a punishing God admitted in evidence to lessen the force of her testimony, liberals cried out in dismay. The witness was Mrs. Clarence Miller, young wife of one of the defendants. Said Judge Barnhill: "If I believed that life ends with death and that there is no punishment after death, I would be less apt to tell the truth." Chief Justice William Howard Taft, highest-ranking U. S. jurist, is a Unitarian. Unitarians do not believe in purgatory. But under Judge Barnhill's ruling, the Chief Justice would...
...include an additional half-million widows. Complex, the measure teems with such provisos as that if a woman is between 55 and 70, and if her husband died before Jan. 1, 1926, then the lucky widow will receive ten shillings a week ($2.50) for the rest of her life...
...Never!" shouted the Sheik, smacking his fist on the dock. "Never in all my life have I led or addressed a crowd. ... I did not even learn of what happened until I read the police reports...
...Kreuger has all the qualities necessary for the creation of a legend. He is remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match period. The Wander-years (they numbered seven) included the U. S., Mexico, England, South Africa, India, Canada, were spent chiefly in the erection of tall buildings. Such...
...Life Building, Macy's, the Hotels Plaza and St. Regis were among the jobs on which Herr Kreuger worked as engineer. He also helped to plan and build the Syracuse Stadium, which the late, great Rockefeller-partner John D. Archbold paid for. In 1907 Herr Kreuger returned to Stockholm where, with Paul Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned...