Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank L. ("Insullated") Smith, Republican, whose candidacy was aided financially and hindered ethically by some $100,000 worth of Samuel Insull's public utility slush. Mr. Smith...
This summer President Samuel M. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive Works talked draw-bar-pull and horsepower hours beside the Moskva. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks talked a Russian cinema trust. Potent hydroelectric engineer Hugh Lincoln ("Muscle Shoals") Cooper proposed to harness the mighty Dnieper with dams and turbines. These purposeful people came to Moscow on business, have returned with the reticence of those who have set themselves to accomplish definite ends. Last week the press noted pronouncements of another sort of U. S. traveler to Russia...
...grinning, roseate man with a shiny hat was one of the first to seize and wring the hands of the tan-faced heroes who soon came ashore from the seaplane and up the Speaker's steps-Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare congratulating Pilot Alan Cobham and a mechanic- upon completing an epic of British aviation, a 28,000-mile round trip to farthest Australia (Melbourne) in an all-British De Havilland. There was a polite telegram from King George...
British boardinghouse keepers and other "ladies come down in the world" twittered approvingly last week over a copy of the Times in which the will of Samuel William Farmer, rich Wilshire squire, was published. His entire estate amounting to ?400,000 ($1,945,000) was bequeather "to be used for the benefit of upper middle and professional class persons of both sexes who through ill health or advancing years are unable to earn a living...
...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...