Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Present at table was Friedrich August III, deposed King of Saxony, and he with a solemn flourish proposed the principal toast: "Your Imperial Majesty's health and happiness." Obsequiously seated some distance from the head of the table was Herr von Berg, shrewd lawyer, who recovered from the German Republic and the State of Prussia over $3,000,000 for onetime Kaiser Wilhelm. Though correspondents were not admitted to any of these functions, most of them curbed their tempers well, took only the smallest revenge by ferreting out the fact that each guest received a handsomely engraved...
...were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand of Il Duce, seemed of black omen for Italy...
...Investment Trust would be a hypothetical bank that had no restrictions on what it could do with the depositors' money. Funds invested in Investment Trusts may well yield 10% or more, may also yield nothing at all. Prior to 1925 there were only 29 U. S. investment trusts; at present there are some...
...financial activities. The house was founded in 1848 by Joseph Seligman, U. S. immigrant from Bavaria in 1835. Becoming wealthy as merchant and importer, Joseph Seligman entered the banking business, sent for his seven brothers. Since then there have always been several Seligmans in the Seligman House. Present representatives of the family in the firm are Henry, Jefferson and Walter Seligman. Perhaps the most distinguished in the firm is shy, quiet, poetry-loving Frederick Strauss,* honorary Phi Beta Kappa member, so little given to publicity that Who's Who does not include his name...
...until two days after the Hoover arrival that the hearing was held. Prosecutor Joel could not produce the witnesses he desired. Those witnesses who were present gave feeble testimony. Long before the Hoover arrival Tailorman Sommers had called Mr. Hoover a "nigger- lover," adding that he "ought to be killed," that "if he comes to Miami he will be killed." Cashier Callahan had boasted: "Someone should bump him off. . . . I wouldn't be afraid to do it myself if he came to Miami...