Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temerity in trimming the elder Morgan in a stock deal, John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was "exiled'' from Wall Street about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence...
Actor Arnold met "Diamond Jim" Brady twice - once when introduced to him by Ethel Barrymore, again when he was playing with Maxine Elliott. Said Brady: "Well, young man, I hope that some day you'll have a big part." Dante's Inferno (Fox). See ten million sinners writhing in eternal torment . . . cringing under the Rain of Fire . . . consumed in the Lake of Flames . . . struggling in the Sea of Boiling Pitch . . . toppling into the Crater of Doom . . . wracked by agony in the Torture Chambers . . . PLUS THE MOST SPECTACULAR CLIMAX EVER CONCEIVED...
...time he had made his first million Thompson could no longer be content with the mere accumulation of money. He had a social conscience and worried over his lack of an integrated philosophy of life...
...office, deeply influenced by Major Raymond Robins, he understood the meaning of revolutionary developments that baffled and outraged Allied diplomats, generals and political experts. A natural democrat, he tried to strengthen Kerensky's government. To forestall the Bolsheviki, he made available for famed oldtime anti-Tsarist martyrs, a million dollars of his personal fortune. The money was to be used for propaganda among the soldiers, urging them to continue the War on the grounds that German victory would mean a return of the monarchy. Thompson demanded that the U. S. Government provide three million a month for the same...
...colleagues by speaking warmly of the Soviets in the midst of a Red scare, declared wistfully that as a capitalist he could get along better with plain workmen than with politicians & lawyers. His unique position was not understood. He became known inaccurately as the man who had given a million dollars to the Bolsheviki...