Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Connecticut Avenue one morning last week raced an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. House of Representatives. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue in hot pursuit sped an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black...
...friends might have assumed that Jean Harlow had caused Bern's suicide had not his common-law wife brought herself to their attention two days later by jumping off a boat in the Sacramento River. This made it possible for Jean Harlow to forget her sorrow in the pursuit of her career. She did so well that a year later she married once more, this time to a jolly cameraman named Harold Rosson. The spirit of camaraderie which had sprung up between Photographer Rosson and Actress Harlow on the set was instrumental in making the termination of their brief...
Between 1930 and 1933 Floyd Odium gobbled up 22 investment trusts, pushed his long arm into such diversified businesses as prune ranching in California and the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. These he acquired in his prime pursuit of shaky investment companies at less than their asset value. Then by careful merging and liquidating he would ride them through to recovery at a profit. But though Atlas' profits have been good, up to last week its 36,700 common stockholders had never received a cent in dividends. Therefore it was news indeed when Mr. Odium and his four directors...
Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...
...CAMBERWELL BEAUTY-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Kidnapping, black magic, the Mafia, love and other forms of pursuit; in short, a story half-fantasy, half-thriller...