Word: mined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matt Brush likes to give parties, with stunts. He collects elephants in all forms, once took a live one to a party. Back in Manhattan last week he fell to thinking what fun the Canada trip had been, especially the miner quartet. Putting deed to thought, he telephoned the mine, arranged to have the singers shipped down by special plane in time to perform next evening at a return dinner to Minister McCrea. A second message stipulated that the miners must remain dirty and wear their work clothes to earn their...
Owner of the Shoreham Building is dapper, aggressive Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...
Others who had promised to appear during the first fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace...
After I had read ''Gamel Oestengaard" in your issue of Dec. 19, I mailed it to an aunt of mine who lives in Valby, asking her to verily the facts in the article...
...Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...