Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Federal Judge Anderson in sentencing: "I don't believe a set of as simple men as you ever before carried a banking institution to destruction. No brains or ability has been shown by any one of you from James Rae Clarke down...
Such service stations may cost $400,000 or $500,000 apiece. The company which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...
...Indian name: Kotaw Kaluntuchy. She claimed direct descent from Sequoyah, Cherokee Indian Chief credited with invention of the Cherokee alphabet. In 1914 she, 23, married Croker, 73. They lived in Iceland. She said to reporters: "It is the dearest ambition of every Indian girl to win a chief . . . I have won the chief of mine...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
When the actors insisted that cinema casts be 100% Equity members, working under protective Equity contracts and rules, the producers flatly refused. The actors then compromised, demanded 80% Equity companies (including principals, minor parts, extras, chorus). The producers again demurred, but said they were willing to employ Equity actors under Equity contracts without attempting to break their allegiance to the union. Since Hollywood Equity membership is growing, the producers pointed out, this would soon result in majority Equity casts...