Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servant girls. Another time he helped prevent the adoption of Daylight Saving Time in the District of Columbia by pointing out that the "hungry lions and ravishing tigers" in the Washington zoo would set up "such a howl as you never heard" if their feeding-hours were changed. Minister Michael MacWhite of the Irish Free State still remembers arranging an audience with the Pope in Rome to which Sol went wearing several dozen rosaries so as to have them blessed for his Irish constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington...
...world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp. as the industry's No. 1 promoter...
...important business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...Charles Michael Schwab, 75, who became manager of Homestead Steel plant immediately after the bloody union-crushing of 1892 when ten men were killed, and who last week returned to the U. S. from taking the cure at Bad Nauheim, the current upheavals between Labor and Capital are merely "a phase...
...lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff stand to collect $3,000,000 as the State's informers...