Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, seven lucky Senators found themselves face to face with the president of one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether...
Last week began another of those trips. Cleared of conspiring with Oilman Edward L. Doheny to defraud the U. S., Fall has yet to be cleared of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny.* With his 68th birthday only seven weeks off, with a physician beside him to watch over his infirmaries, Fall boarded a train at El Paso. Entraining at Los Angeles to testify at the trial was Alleged-Briber Doheny, himself an aging man but no longer under indictment...
Startling was the name, for it signified the merger of two of the famed four "D" banks. Dedi becomes the only billion dollar bank outside of the U. S. and Great Britain, controlling, some say, over one-third of the deposits of the seven biggest banks in Germany...
...October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices will close, that though Russian workmen labor on a four-day shift, Russian industry operates on a continuous seven-day schedule...
...university soccer eleven is prepared to face Worcester Polytechnic in the opening game of the season here today. John F. Carr '28, who handled the freshmen in the fall of 1928, is replacing John Kershaw as university coach this year. The fact that Coach Carr is relying on seven sophomores to start against the strong Worcester team is significant...