Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons...
...from saying that Colonel Smith is a reprobate, either personally or politically. He pointed out that Colonel Smith, as Public Utilities Commissioner, had never raised a utility rate, and that, by a lowering of rates, one company had lost $40,000,000, and that Company was run by Samuel Insull, his chief backer. Lawyer Beck concluded his case as follows...
...witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed down by Associate Justice Van Devanter. This decision, besides authorizing the Senate to act on the case of Mally S. Daugherty, is of immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused to answer in the oil investigations; Samuel Insull, who did not tell all he knew concerning the Frank L. Smith primary campaign fund; Thomas Cunningham, who defied Senator James A. Reed in the William S. Vare slush investigations...
...President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, 70, but called a "successful old business man," said, drily: "Age makes no difference. If a young man has ability and foresight, he will succeed. So will an old man. Age itself is only an incident...
Died. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted, 73, onetime (1902-03) Lord Mayor of London, seashell? and oil trader, who inaugurated bulk transportation of petroleum through the Suez Canal; in London. He survived his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin, by a few hours...