Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons. A single contribution has been enough to get oneself listed as a member. Annual dues have not been collected. Only some 25,000 persons contributed last year. The bulk of the money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent on the A. A. P. A. for his livelihood. Long before he began...
...electors should, before the second Monday in January, "bolt" the party which elected it and shift or split the State's electoral vote. Such an event is almost unthinkable, party politics being what they are. No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796 when Samuel Miles, a Federalist elector in Pennsylvania, voted for Thomas Jefferson instead of John Adams. Faithless Elector Miles is unique...
...true, but a moneylender nonetheless. As if that were not surprise enough, the will-reading ceremony brought out a twist in the Major's character, which threatened to disrupt all. A condition of the will: to his daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner, she was amazed to find him a suave, handsome young Jew, not the portly, oppressive person she pictured...
...Very few U. S. private secretaries have mounted to the top of business. Among those few are: Samuel Insull, John Jacob Raskob, Edward Bok, George Bruce Cortelyou...
...meeting of tennis moguls in the Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan, Tilden made two mistakes: 1) He told the tycoons that business prevented his defending his case, which inevitably was inferred to be a plea of guilty; and 2) he released for publication a letter which he wrote to President Samuel H. Collom, of the U. S. L. T. A., wherein he said, among other things, that he "did not intentionally violate or attempt to evade the spirit or letter of the [player-writer] rule and to the best of my knowledge articles under dispute do not violate the rule." This constitutes...