Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's sedate Bath, famed for its "waters," silk-bearded Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia, has long been in exile working studiously on his memoirs. By last week the memoirs were nearly finished; arrangements had been made for their publication. Suddenly Publisher Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...
Having for a generation applied himself with resource and concentration worthy of a more respectable cause, last week Michael Strauss Jacobs finally emerged at the pinnacle of the prizefight business. No one in the business was at all surprised, for the man who taught the late Tex Rickard more than one trick of the trade has for years been climbing the ladder of his chosen profession like a Horatio Alger hero...
...Securities & Exchange Commission's two-year-old investigation of manipulation in Bellanca Aircraft shares by famed Broker Michael J. Meehan (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.): A Decision, the first involving manipulation since SEC was set up, ordering Broker Meehan barred from all U. S. stock exchanges. To the nervous little broker whose name in stockmarket history was written in Radio stock during the Coolidge bull market, the order will mean little in money, much in honor. His health broken by SEC's interminable proceedings, Mike Meehan has not been active for more than a year...
Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores: Avoid contact with bumboat men who offer doubtful liquor and may be robbers...
...charter from Ryan in 1933. At the start of the 1934 strike Mr. Bridges was on the Ryan payroll as an organizer. Not until he was made chairman of the Joint Marine Strike Committee did San Francisco wake up to the fact that there was a Harry Bridges. Old Michael J. Casey, Irish boss of the West Coast teamsters, fought to keep .his men out of the maritime strike, fought the general strike, rising in one meeting to cry: "Don't do it, lads. I know what it means." In the end the venerable old teamster had to play...