Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Manhattan literary agents, who get authors into print for 10% of the proceeds, the choice of Mr. Oppenheim, Hugh Walpole and the estates of John Galsworthy and Joseph Conrad is a 47-year-old British Army officer named Eric Pinker. Son of London's famed James...
...suspicion of grand larceny, Eric Pinker appeared in a police lineup, jaunty in sack suit and bowler, to plead not guilty, to be confronted by "indications" that Romancer Oppenheim was not his only dissatisfied client. Finding that he had a good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other agents wondered...
...exciting word that he had been released. Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested $76,890. From other investors the Aults got some $40,000 more. But the Orendorff fortune never materialized. Last September, postal investigators decided they knew...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
After Pope Pius XII had given a private audience to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Patrick Kennedy and eight of their nine children,* 7-year-old Teddy Kennedy, youngest of them all, declared: "I wasn't frightened. ... He patted my head and told me I was a smart little fellow. He gave me the first rosary beads from the table before he gave my sister [Patricia...