Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railroad bonds and gained the undying enmity of Jay Gould for refusing to play his slippery games. In late years the firm has practically withdrawn from the underwriting field to specialize as a dealer in railroad and municipal issues. But what lifted Roosevelt & Son above the run-of-the-mill Wall Street houses was its unbiased investment counsel. Its clientele consisted largely of institutions, wealthy individuals and estates which turned over their portfolios to Roosevelt management. And Roosevelt management was good...
...dared to breathe. The players, who had forged through the three weeks' tournament to top a list of ten were Erwin Rudolph of Cleveland and Felix Delasandro (Andrew Ponzi) of Philadelphia. Rudolph is medium-sized round-faced, stolid. He developed his cue skill between working in a steel mill and playing a violin in a cinema house, held the world's championship title in 1927 and 1930. Ponzi is an Italian whose greying black hair belies his 30 years. High-strung' always ready to take chances on the table, Ponzi is popular as a spectacular player. Eastern...
Whatever I had dispatched as a war correspondent passed through the inevitable mill of military or naval censorship, telegraph transmission, copy desk, headline writing, proof reading and final approval or disapproval by some responsible editor at home. Therefore the responsibility for whatever was published as coming from me was divided among several persons...
...noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...
Arthur Hind emigrated to the U. S. 43 years ago, established a plush mill in Utica which greatly prospered. Personal profits went into stamps. His first big purchase was a lot of 12,000 for which he paid $3,000. After weeding out forgeries, worthless stamps, repaired and damaged stamps, 500 were left. The faster plush rolled out of his mills the faster stamps snowed into his albums. Lord Duveen managed to sell him his own stamp collection for $170,000. In 1922 Arthur Hind made world headlines by paying the highest price ever for a postage stamp...