Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
...Swope boomed: "A dinner given by city people living in the country is a nonfixed feast as to time! I don't think we were expected before 8:30 or 9 o'clock!" For his nose he was given $3,000; for her face Mrs. Swope got half as much...
...parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country...
...short, few big operators would care to be exposed as "raiding the market," especially in a period when a decline might carry along U. S. prosperity. And if the "bear pool" were found to be an actuality, disclosure of its identity would enable powerful bulls to determine exactly how much pressure would be needed to destroy...