Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the Delaware River one afternoon last week a plane, sweeping for a landing, sideslipped, twirled awkwardly down to death. From the aerodrome on the bank a boat put out, men floundered into the water/ worked desperately to extricate the officer and mechanic in the cockpit. The latter, one Samuel Schultz, was easy to lift out, but the plunging engine had jammed the officer's leg, crushed in his chest. "Easy, boys," he said over and over in a dry, thin voice. Two hours later, in the Naval Hospital, he died-Commander John Rodgers, U.S.N...
...Chicago last week, directors of the Midland Utilities Co. elected Samuel Insull Jr. their president over public utility companies which serve electricity, gas or transportation to 194 communities of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. He accepted the appointment with the grace of his mother, onetime Actress Margaret A. Bird, and with the complacent assurance of his father, Electricity Monger Samuel Insull...
...left for home. He said nothing, the President said nothing. In Chicago, people talked about their two most notable Jews: Julius Rosenwald, who had given millions of dollars to the Young Men's Christian Association, to the University of Chicago, to the founding of an industrial museum; and Samuel Insull, whose particular philanthropic hobby was Senatorial candidates. Suddenly, above all the howls of public utility scandal, came a voice, seldom heard in political squabbles, which said: "Insull is all right. He has done a lot for Chicago, and he can do whatever he wants with his own money...
...voice belonged to Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, who had been president of the Peoples' Gas Light & Coke Co. before Samuel Insull. It is not surprising that Mr. Billings had a slightly different opinion than Mr. Rosenwald. The two men are as unlike as their homes. Julius clings to a ghost of the old South Side; Cornelius stayed in Chicago long enough to be a director of the World's Columbian Exposition, then went away to build palaces on Manhattan, to sail yachts into Constantinople, to breed horses in Virginia...
...Hill," besides figuring in Seattle vocabularies as a euphemism for "the Devil," signifies paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...