Word: packets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...
Died. George Peters Lee, 57, last of the Mississippi steamboat Lees, packet designer & master; after a short illness; in Memphis, Tenn...
...elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star bulked large in the scrambled affairs of fallen Royal Mail. Still owed to I. M. M. on the purchase price...
...MacDonald whose right eye is now causing him trouble. The Prime Minister's left eye was operated upon for glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball) in February by Surgeon Duke-Elder. Last week Surgeon Duke-Elder did not fly with Scot MacDonald but followed him by rail and Channel packet...
Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace...