Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic Machines Corp.; Drapery Trust; Retail Trade Corp.; Photomaton Parent Corp. and Far Eastern Photomaton Corp.-both companies operating coin-in-the-slot camera booths, unconnected financially with the U. S. exploiters of the same Photomaton machine...
...Center 20 195 6.1 Georgetown U. Cagle, C. K. '30 Back 24 170 5.10 S. W. La. Inst. Carlmark, C. W. '31 End 23 179 5.11 Moline High Carlson, G. C. '31 Back 21 176 5.11 Moline High Carver, R. L. '32 Back 22 162 5.11 Oak Cliff High Coughlin, J. G. '32 Tackle 21 185 6.1 Flagstaff Teach. Col. Crabb, F. G. '30 End 25 175 6. New Haven High Fletcher, G. L. '31 Tackle 24 185 6.4 Staunton M. A. Freeman, R. S. '30 Back 22 155 5.7 Notre Dame Fulton, R. F. '31 Tackle...
...released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, Workers in the mill. Chief preacher was Cicero Queens, a gnarled...
...Author. Ernest Hemingway's father, a doctor of Oak Park, Ill., last year committed suicide while in ill health. He saw little of his son, for the novelist, following, athletic U.. S. schooldays, Wardays on the Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in France. Burly, laconic as his prose, he is fond of bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents...
...earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright. Injured: Mrs. Johnson's wash, by oil leaking from the treed ship; Student Engel's feelings, by words sprayed at him by irate Mrs. Johnson...