Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dragged to Danville to testify, Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
...probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon taken over by the notably solvent, is now the luxury of a comparative handful in the U. S. on 14 courts in exclusive clubs. Main U. S. racqueteer is a Manhattan broker, Robert Grant...
...Savings & Loan Co. The three battlers: 1) California's Building & Loan Commissioner Ralph Willard Evans, who fortnight ago took over Pacific States "to conserve and protect the investments of thousands of people"; 2) retired Millionaire Norman Waite Church, who was appointed custodian of the company; 3) ham-fisted Robert Stewart Odell, Pacific States' chief owner...
...Robert Odell has the stature of a Wotan, the jowl of a bloodhound and a temper to match. An Iowa farmboy, he went to San Francisco in 1923, later set up as a mortgage broker in Santa Barbara. In 1927 he and some friends decided to acquire small, little-known Pacific States...
...these charges Robert Odell had last week made no direct answer. Instead he brought a spectacular counterattack. He claimed that Commissioner Evans is a political minion of Governor Olson and that they are ganging up on him because he did not contribute enough to their 1938 campaign fund. He based this in part upon the appointment of Norman Church as Pacific States' custodian...