Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read the invocation, then sat on the platform, one chair removed from Lewis, who key-noted the threatened strike. The good Bishop realized well that in actively applying a Papal Encyclical to a labor dispute he was making not only Chicago, but U. S. history...
...Celebrated during the inquisition of J. P. Morgan by Counsel (now New York Supreme Court Justice) Ferdinand Pecora, was a notation found on an income-tax return, made by an Internal Revenue agent, which read: "Returned without examination for the reason that the return was prepared in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., and it has been our experience that any schedule made by that office is correct...
...mattresses in a spare room, bought them tags and food. Said he: "They make grand boarders. They are always on time for meals." But his oldest friend was liquor, and this friend did him in. His funeral was conducted by the Elks ("my church") and the Bill of Rights read over his grave...
...frontier was far more tolerant of Bret Harte, according to Author Walker's records, than Harte ever admitted. A slender, curly-haired, sickly New York boy, who had read Shakespeare at six, Bret (whose friends sometimes called him Fanny) was a self-conscious literary man, who prospected in patent-leather shoes, drove a stagecoach only long enough to get his literary stake. He wrote his frontier successes when he had long been sitting comfortably behind a desk. Far from being unappreciated, when the Atlantic Monthly offered him $10,000 a year, the frontier went the limit to hold...
...handyman in his father's Texas feed store, a reporter on Texas and Manhattan newspapers, an advertising copy writer. Now in his late fifties (he says he is "eleven going on twelve"), Author Benefield commutes three days a week from suburban Peekskill, N. Y. to Manhattan to read manuscripts for his publishers, Reynal & Hitchcock. He still speaks with an oldtime Texas drawl...