Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stern Justice and a Mississippi orator. In one of his first cases in the Islands he had declared: "I am responsible only to Homer Cummings and to God Almighty." He refused to dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small amount of lumber and cement. Instead, he put witnesses on the stand, questioned them and then, without a jury, found the employe guilty and fined him $200, saying, "You have become a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country." This procedure was, according to the Department of Justice, proper under Danish...
...like Hauptmann's, declared the Government wood expert, had "signed" its teeth marks into the lumber in the ladder...
...Xylotomist Koehler said that he had searched for a year and a half for the mill and lumber yard which had supplied the pine for most of the rungs in the ladder. The mill was finally located in South Carolina. The lumber yard was found in The Bronx, the very lumber yard where Hauptmann had bought wood...
...Thursday, May 9, 1901, a young lumber merchant from Maine named Edward Allen Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage...
Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...