Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baltimore operatives reported a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration. Sleuth Pinkerton rushed the President-elect to Washington by night, was rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with...
India has no native state so rich, potent and extensive as Hyderabad which is about the size of the United Kingdom and there last week the Royal Family of the Asatia Dynasty celebrated the Silver Jubilee of "The Richest Man in the World," Lieut. General His Exalted Highness Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan, the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar...
...Avenue" is a good show suffering from a slight attack of miscasting. It contains an unspeakably rich heroine who alternates between haughtiness and condescension, and that part is thrust upon Madelcine Carrol. Miss Carrol is an excellent actress, and having made the transition from English society to Hollywood, she is able to adapt herself to almost anything. Still, there is always the shade of an indication that she is stooping and knows it. She has suffered worse at the hands of other heroes than Dick Powell, and she suffers to perfection. But previously her sufferings have been noble; the petty...
...plot in brief makes some spicy jibes at the ultra-rich, shows Dick ridiculing Madelcine and Madeleine ridiculing Dick with an idyllic all night frolic thrown in between, marries the two through the martyrdom of Miss Faye, and winds up with a wedding breakfast in a wheel-less dining car. The thing is rollicking enough, but falls a little short of what the material would seem to permit...
...collecting dues, and, most vital of all, of coming into direct contact with the laboring people as individuals and not as a commodity or a great unknown,--should give a new viewpoint to future Harvard industrialists. How the badgered workman may feel when a well-clad youth from the rich man's college starts dunning him for dues is open for speculation, but if a Harvard man can sell himself to the working population, he may be President some...