Word: seeings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only he and the janitor have keys and in which he must not be disturbed. Unostentatious, he is not incapable of an occasional princely gesture. For example, he one day lunched with two U. S. visitors who complained that the late spring had deprived them of an opportunity to see the countryside aglow with Sweden's famed roses. Herr Kreuger asked the visitors to tea at one of his country homes. When they arrived they discovered everywhere rosebushes in full bloom: adroit Herr Kreuger had gone to Stockholm hothouses, arranged for roses to meet the visiting...
Lobbyist Eyanson took the stand but could add little to the story his employer had told the day before. He could see nothing wrong in the "service" he rendered. So evasive was his testimony that Senator Walsh charged him with deliberately developing a "feeble memory...
...such a triumph as no avowed champion of Labor ever enjoyed in the Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said...
...years in Corsicana, Tex. Before that he was an elephant trainer for the Al. G. Barnes circus where his special charge was Black Diamond, a land elephant. Last week Farm Hand Pickett, learning that the old circus was coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over a box car. The nine-ton beast then smashed Mrs. Donohue to the ground, trampled...