Word: richard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard C. Callen, U. S. Marshal in Denver, Colo., went, a special warrant signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg for the arrest and extradition from France of Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from justice. Mr. Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against...
...roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience. V;ola Frayne as Nurse Katy, Richard Gordon as Dr. Weston, demonstrated degrees of drunkenness in sympathetic fashion. On the whole, however, a play ineffectual, an evening ill-spent...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: James Joseph Tunney sent a check for $1,000 to prospective Polar Pilgrim Richard Evelyn Byrd and a telegram: "If the American people knew what you are going to do and the difficulties attending the financing of an expedition of this magnitude, they would overwhelm you. My own check is a very humble indication of my own faith in your purpose...
...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...
...Franz Schubert, Vienna held last week its Saengerfest, the tenth Congress of German Singing Societies to which no less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...