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...robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...like to see Greer Garson as a Western lass who makes good in Jim Fiskish New York and marries a dullish robber baron, you can go to "Mrs. Parkington," but you'll also have to see her finish up as a rather pitiful eighty-year-old matriarch. That is no fun, even if you like Greer Garson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...Roosevelts were able to help found the Chemical Bank (now the giant Chemical Bank & Trust Co., with which Roosevelts are stillassociated). As a big-time house, Roosevelt & Son helped finance Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds, did battle with Robber Baron Jay Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Who Plants, Tends | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Central's 10,743 miles of tracks, its 119,208 employes, its 139,278 locomotives and cars? Well, if the Central wanted to prove that it wasn't, everyone was sure that there would be the roughest, toughest, brass-knuckledest fight since the throat-cutting days of Robber Barons Fisk, Gould and old Commodore Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Galahad on Wheels | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Last week, Venezuelans got the sequel to the best robber mystery they had known in many a day. In Barranquilla in neighboring Colombia, police began to watch one Julio Casa Rivas. Reason: he was buying flashy cars and diamonds, and otherwise tossing around Venezuelan bolivars. Rivas was arrested, told all: with a cashier accomplice he had switched moneybags just before the San Tome-bound plane took off from Caracus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Last Laugh | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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