Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
...wage raising. Indignant clerks in the Bank of England, now being completely rebuilt at a cost of some $25,000,000, pointed out that despite this expense its last dividend to stockholders was paid at the fat old rate of 12%. The staff's cut, they estimated, will save the Bank of England only a paltry $453,000 per year...
Marie Dressler's career as a theatrical celebrity falls into two divisions. By 1925 she had acquired the financial problems which customarily overtake actors who are too fond of their friends to save their money. When she made up her mind to start a hotel in Paris, her closest friend, a Manhattan astrologer named Nella Webb, persuaded her to wait, predicted that she would enjoy "seven fat years" beginning Jan. 17, 1927. On Jan. 17, Director Allan Dwan telephoned Marie Dressier, offered her a role in a picture he was about to make in Florida. Reluctantly-because she suspected...
...slowly gathering public indignation. Chicago's Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What we are doing in Chicago...
...pretend to be looking them over with an eye to choice) the Italian, Hamburg-American, Cunard and White Star lines welcome visitors. . . If the dogs of conscience drag you to the Art Museum, don't forget you can get lunch on the premises. . . And finally, if you can save out seventy-five cents, there's tea at the Ritz