Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Arthur Morgan Smith, of Cleveland, secretary-treasurer of Gas Machinery Co.; in Manhattan. Early one morning Mr. Smith left a party in Manhattan's Hotel Marguery with Oilman Samuel E. Bell of Baltimore and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull...
...Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided by his brothers, Foreman N. and Samuel N. Leopold, trustees. So it came out last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden met Tenor Beniamino Gigli for the first time last week in Manhattan. Said he: "It is a great pleasure to meet a great...
...Hemisphere Transport. For two years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
Properly enough, this model farm is the property of Public Utility Tycoon Samuel Insull who operates it as a semi-advertisement of the Electric...
...method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers and cousin." Then...