Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Denver, one Albert T. Frohn sat on his front porch, read a book. Out of nowhere dashed a runaway automobile, scooted across the lawn, hurtled onto the porch, pinned Mr. Frohn to the wall. Injuries: leg fracture, loss of half...
Near Poughkeepsie, Oscar Widmer, 50, weatherman, spent many evenings wandering, with club and dog, along deserted roads, peeking at couples in parked automobiles. Recently he was hailed to court, charged with opening the door of an automobile belonging to one Thomas Wright, pulling the leg of Mr. Wright's lady companion, "twitting" Mr. Wright, whose companion was Mrs. Wright. Weatherman Widmer's sentence: 30 days...
...Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have him discharged from the Commission's employ. The chief complaint against Mr. Koch was the man who had given him his Com-mission job-William Burgess of Pennsylvania, onetime (1921-1925) Tariff Commissioner, now vice-president of U. S Potters Association. Lobbyist Burgess, now 72, denied he was a lobbyist, but explained that the potters paid him $7,500 per year...
Last February Senator Bingham asked Elijah Kent Hubbard, president of the Connecticut association, for the "loan" of a man to help the State's interests on the tariff bill. Mr. Eyanson was sent to Washington, settling himself in Senator Bingham's office. During the open hearings he sat at the Senator's elbow and whispered questions to be asked witnesses. He prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that...
...Mr. Pollak, a criminal investigator of no small ability, assisted in the prosecution of Nicky Arnstein, bond thief, in 1921. Lately he has been picking over the ruins of Manhattan's City Trust Co. collapse (TIME...