Word: midlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once, Mark Hanna failed. Midlander though he was, he did not get his ship subsidy bill past the bombproof dugouts of Midland Congressmen...
...Larger banks are the "big five": Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial, Westminster...
...purpose of the early part of the Government's case was to establish that, through a Canadian company as a blind, Sinclair, a Canadian named Osler, H. M. Blackmer of the Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court...
...London in the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, before Lord Justice Darling and a special jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times...
...death, and then he did not marry an actress. He has no children. He was graduated from Fordham College at 20. His first job was as section hand on a railroad. Later he became superintendent and managing director of the O. & M. R. R. He now owns the Texas & Midland. He got his title of Colonel as did Colonel House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. Now he is retired. He lives jovially on his 300-acre estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass., said to be worth three million dollars. He inherited...