Word: minne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faribault, Minn...
Died. John Burke, 78, Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, North Dakota's first Democratic Governor (1907-13), onetime (1913-21) Treasurer of the U. S.; of pneumonia, following a lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window...
Professor John Madigan of St. Thomas' College (St. Paul, Minn.) is tired of marking stupid examination papers for his class in physics. Last week's batch was particularly exasperating. Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse...
...long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into the holds of waiting ships. Loadings are incredibly rapid. The steamer D. G. Kerr on Sept. 7, 1921 took on 12,507 tons of iron ore at Two Harbors, Minn. in 16½ minutes. Last week dock-hands at Duluth-Superior were working day and night to prepare for the big ore fleet...
...town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...