Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't know that, sir," he replied contemptuously, "you'd have to take that up with my tax attorney." Like many another witness, Knohl was called before the committee because of his dealings with Caudle. Knohl was an "investigator" for Samuel Aaron and Jacob Friedus, New Yorkers later convicted of income-tax evasion. With Friedus, he recalled, he met Tax Prosecutor Caudle at the Department of Justice. "Caudle said, 'Mr. Friedus, this office has no persecution complex,' " Knohl testified...
Waves tearing across her deck, the yacht Amphitrite hung on a sand bar off the Carolina coast. Her captain and owner, 40-year-old Samuel Luttrell II, ordered all hands into their 16-ft. lifeboat. With his wife Kathleen, their twelve-year-old son Samuel III and six crew members, he put out into the darkening sea. Just before they cast off, someone grabbed two metal ice trays from the yacht and carried them into the boat...
Like many U.S. dailies, the 59-year-old Observer had been squeezed between rocketing production costs and a static advertising intake. The bigger Jersey Journal, said its new owner, will be strong, and thus "a better product" for readers. Among newspaper tycoons, little (5 ft. 3 in.) Samuel I. Newhouse is growing fast. A month earlier, he had bought complete control of the money-making Journal (he had held half interest since 1946), only eleven months after he bought Portland's Oregonian. He is still looking for more papers. Says Newhouse: "Publishers can make up for rising costs...
...progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...
...first message sent by Samuel Morse on May 24,1844 over his new telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore...