Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bluff and Bruises. Hankow or "Mouth of Han," takes its name from the great river Han which flows into the greater Yangtze. The city lies at the confluence, with Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since...
Again, one encounters a phrase. "Supreme Kingdom" in this connection does not mean the entire body of Christ's dominion on the earth. It is the name of an organization. A certain Edward Young Clarke, who, according to various exposes, is "extortioner, fraudulent publicity-man and Mann Act vio-lator," organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, has created the Supreme Kingdom. He created at the same time an "Organization Service Co. " to sell memberships in the Supreme Kingdom. Mr. Clarke made a great deal of money selling memberships in the Ku Klux Klan for $10 apiece, of which he kept...
...lunchtime in St. Louis one day last week, Gene Tunney signed his name to a piece of paper giving Tex Rickard the privilege of arranging a fight for him, in Manhattan, next September, for a guarantee of $475,000 and half of the net gate receipts over $1,000,000 against any opponent Mr. Rickard picks out. To find the opponent there will be an elimination tournament involving Jack Sharkey, Jim Maloney, Jack Delaney, Paul Berlenbach and Michael Paolino. The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ring...
...bartender gave his name as H. H. Tammen. He had started life as a waif, he said, who had found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right...
...Post of the Yellow '90s was little flimsier than its Denver contemporaries, excepting the historic Rocky Mountain News. The latter's name alone was sufficient to carry it through the jamboree that followed Mr. Tammen's advent, and until 1913 it was in the able hands of Sen. Thomas M. Patterson. But all other Denver papers soon wilted. As soon as the Post began to pay, which was very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst...