Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change...
Riding the competitive bidding wave today is red-faced Board Chairman Robert Ralph Young of Allegheny Corp., who has been in the middle of a hectic three-year fight to get control of Allegheny's railroad substructures, notably prosperous Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. Bob Young believes that at every turn Morgan interests blocked his way. One of his retaliations has been to get in the way of Morgan Stanley & Co. every time it goes after a railroad securities issue...
...extra for its bonds. Last week, after a barrage of letters, wires, phone calls, the directors of Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis voted for competition on another $7,000,000 bond issue. Again Morgan Stanley, for whom the issue was originally intended, stepped out, and Robert Young cut another notch...
...which followed ranks high among history's forlorner hopes. For this mob of desperate men overran southern Italy for two years, trounced three Roman armies. Not the least of their achievements was the founding of Sun City, a Utopia as fantastic as the Transcendentalists' Brook Farm or Robert Owen's New Harmony...
Arthur Koestler, expatriate German journalist, retells the gladiators' story in an ironical novel which deftly suggests the case of modern Germany, less deftly suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...