Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When Mr. Insull later organized a Middle West Utilities Company, Mr. West invested in that too. So did his wife...
...there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week with a sort of awe "La Grande Catherine de Finance...
...freedom of the stage. By a vote of 47 to 35 the Council rejected a motion ordering that the farce Marriages Are Made in Heaven should be closed by the police. Meanwhile the drama critics of leading Frankfurt dailies exhorted their readers against further throwing of bombs in the name of Goodness and Piety. True Christians, they pointed out, ought to follow the sublime and nonviolent example of Christ...
...political parties not forced me forward I would never have consented to the mention of my name for a third term. That the people of Austria desire me to continue President I do not for one moment doubt . . . during my incumbency much Austrian wit has been expended on my champion milch cow, Bella. Perhaps my countrymen should know that abroad there are few Honest Austrians so well known as Bella." With deadly insinuation angry Dr. Hainisch, then named Monsignor Ignaz Seipel as one of the very best known of Austrians, pointedly omitting to call him honest...
...Rector Ray is the third rector at the Little Church Around the Corner in all the 80 years of its existence, his immediate predecessor having been Dr. George Clarke Houghton, nephew of the founder. The custom at the Little Church Around the Corner is for the actual rector to name his successor. So knowing Rector Ray's interest in theatrical people and things, Dr. Houghton invited him in 1923 to be vicar, with the right of succession. Three months later Dr. Houghton died...