Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve tired-eyed jurors, taut and nervous, filed solemnly into the District of Columbia Supreme Court room one morning last week after a day and a night's deliberation. A young bank teller, as foreman, cleared his throat huskily, read from a blue paper in his shaky hand: "Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court...
...Methods. Not covertly were the investigations conducted. With willing cooperation from college authorities, the investigators quizzed undergraduates, teachers, athletic officials. They opened files, read countless letters from preparatory school stalwarts who wished to be paid for college competition. Only at Oglethorpe University, where permission to search records and interview students and professors was refused, and the University of Georgia, where one official failed to send promised data, were there obstructions...
This glimpse into the early life of the president of his company would have been afforded a stockholder of Kraft Cheese Co. who in 1925 read an article entitled, "A Cheese Business for the Ages," written by James Louis Kraft and printed in the monthly Kraft house-organ, Cheesekraft. If the stockholder had read further, past a reference to "dear old aunt Beckey. She has gone to her reward," he would have come upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after...
...keep divorced persons from remarrying in the Church, 32nd-degree Mason, national chaplain of the National Association of Masonic Square Clubs. The Editing Committee for the recent revision of the Prayer Book (TIME, Oct. 21) listed Dr. Gates as a member, but he could not go to Boston to read proof. He declared he trusted implicitly in the Boston committee members...
...given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships as a gymnasium . . . learned to swim in the fish cars. . . . For a time I had a West Indian goat, four dogs, a parrot and a monkey, all living in peace...