Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh C. Rice, manager of the mine, admitted that his company carried no compensation insurance, would be able to give little financial aid to the dead miners' families. He expressed belief that the wrecked mine would be abandoned. It would be costly to restore, he said, and most miners would superstitiously refuse to work in its ghost-haunted galleries...
...haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin' to me. I went back later and seen Connie layin' in the road. He was daid." Later, she said, the attackers informed her that they had killed Franklin and would kill her too if she told...
...carry Franklin toward a big log fire. The State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had inadvertently been mislaid a State health officer would not swear that the remains were human. The live "Connie Franklin" said that on the night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid. Next day I went away. That's all they was to it." Some witnesses felt that he looked...
William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...
...Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...