Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican National Committeeman from New York for, above all others, he must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the wives of the money bags. Charles Dewey Hilles is still the New York committeeman. To fill the committeewoman's post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York's first Congresswoman...
Then a sexagenarian came and described how Angèle had come to him for money. And one night the customers at the restaurant exchanged obscene impressions. Now he knew he must be very distasteful to her since, definitely a prostitute, she had turned down only himself. He climbed into her bedroom after midnight, but she was sleeping elsewhere. In the morning he found her, took her to the river bank, twisted her arm to make her admit he disgusted her. She began screaming shrilly in terror and in equal terror he began beating her over the face with a convenient...
...tenth and final mile, strong, blonde Miss Norelius led Miss Tower by 300 yards. She won $10,000, Miss Tower $3,000-their share of $15,000 prize money supplied by William Wrigley Jr., Chicago gum man, who got the idea of swimming marathons two years ago and, with $25,000 prize money, induced 150 competitors to try swimming the 20 miles from Santa Catalina Island across San Pedro Channel to the California coast (TIME...
...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
...smartest U. S. director, King Vidor grew up in Galveston, Tex., went to Tome School in Maryland. When he left school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little money out of it. Several years later, after marrying Florence Vidor, not then famed as a cinemactress, he got his first good job writing and directing stories for General Film Co. Recently he was divorced by Florence Vidor, married Eleanor Boardman whom he directed in The Crowd...