Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and are tolerant." The jury: Gentiles 12, Jews...
...Rhea ran a line of river boats on the Mississippi, loved the stockmarket, had been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...
...when William Peter Hamilton died, Dow, Jones & Co. needed a new high priest to lead the Dow cult of stockmarket analysis. They published some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything...
Hustled to Magistrate Peter Abeles, Alexander pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to animals. For eight cats in the bag, he spent two nights...
...Tiger scores came in the first period, during which nearly all the play transpired in Harvard's half of the field. Following one of Peter's kicks to the Crimson one yard line, Charlie Spreyer's attempted kick-out was blocked for a safety and two points...