Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong in State politics. With his able son Luke Jr. who is also fighting extradition and a heavy fine, he ran the Nashville Tennesseeans (morning & evening), the Knoxville Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal. Since 1930, when the financial dream-empire of Promoter Caldwell crashed into ruin and scandal, Col. Lea has lost all his newspapers. Last week the onetime publisher made a first move to get back into his old field by announcing plans for a new paper, the Nashville Free Press His wife & son were to be the incorporators...
...Chicago court last week Mrs. Abbott demanded: 1) separate maintenance from her husband, whom she accuses of peccadillos (as did Mrs. McLean); 2) removal of her ailing husband as publisher because she asserted he was letting the paper go to ruin through neglect (as did Mrs. McLean). There the analogy ends...
...clock the factory was a smouldering ruin, but four of the nearby houses were still aflame. As they burned themselves out, the total casualties mounted to nine dead, 180 injured. Next day Bergen County officials rejected the theory that the explosion was caused by the heat of the sun, set to work on clues of incendiarism. They questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric...
...goes to lunch with his old master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine's lover, has lunch with her and tells her about a speech he is going to make in the Chamber which will ruin the oil interests. Young Jean Jerphanion, on the train to Paris, dreams of his exciting future. Quinette meets the murderer by appointment, extracts a half-confession. Wazemmes is picked up by a fashionably dressed lady, who invites him to her apartment and treats him very nicely...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...