Word: macpherson
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...says to himself, that yesterday he was in the midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped up on the stage at the Arena after Aimee Semple MacPherson has wound up her tirade in a blaze of glory, to "get" her for an interview. If she refused he would have had to chase her cab to the hotel and then worm his way into her presence...
...James Maher. He testified that he had burned 24 drawers of "General" Brown's correspondence in the Post Office Building furnace a few days before the Postmaster General went out of office. He said he had been ordered to do so by Mr. Brown's secretary, Kenneth MacPherson, and that some of the files related to mail contracts...
Pollux confided to me that he was nothing short of alarmed at the imminence of a third Battle of the Century. What, he asked, if Billy Sunday, following the example of Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton who plans to team up with the great Mrs. Costello, should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable...
...death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright and $3,000,000 in trust;* to his son, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, $3,000,000 outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund...
...MacPherson divorced Robert Menzies McAlmon, penniless Greenwich Villager whose poems she had read during a visit to the U.S. in 1921. Because Poet McAlmon was awed by her wealth, she proposed the match herself, married him two weeks after their first meeting...