Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress appropriated $25,000 for a monument to mark the spot where General Andrew Jackson with his 4,000 raw recruits lay behind cotton bales as Sir Edward Michael Pakenham's 5,000 British veterans made their dawn attack on Jan. 8, 1815. Twice the redcoats charged. Twice they withered under U. S. fire, twice were driven back. Pakenham himself was killed. Jackson lost 13 men, the British...
Gambling. George Michael Cohan is an actor who, in the character of a hoary and vindictive gambler, by making improper proposals to a mercenary trollop, can cause middle-aged ladies to murmur happily with approval, although one would expect them to clap tippets to their ears...
Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, contributed to the messiness of things Republican by charging that James Michael Curley, Democrat, had kept the religious issue alive during last year's campaign by "dastardly work"- circulating anti-Catholic literature. Last week Boss Curley sued Boss Liggett for civil and criminal libel...
Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
...Power of Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later...