Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Irving was more appreciated here even than in England therefore there is no base for such an assertion. Both Miss Terry and Irving deplored the fact that England did not appreciate Booth and when he failed there most pathetically, Irving made Booth act in his theatre and share his honors as the great artist and gentleman he was. This as a beau jeste to Americans whom he was most grateful to and has never tired of acknowledging that same great debt. No! No! No! Ellen Terry did not "detest" American audiences. It is sacrilege...
...warrant signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg for the arrest and extradition from France of Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from justice. Mr. Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against him by the Government. Last week, he had to flee France or submit to detention...
...without customers, national guardsmen cleaned their rifles. In the greatest labor protest in the history of the textile city, strikers had lost some $9,600,000 in wages, at the staggering rate of $600,000 a week. Mill securities had fallen to purely nominal values, a few dollars a share. Both owners and strikers had rejected arbitration, had agreed without hope to allow the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation to '"investigate." So far as New Bedford could see, the strike might last until winter. If the strikers could find fuel, it might last until another summer, indefinitely...
Hats. Three designs, all applied to small, close-fitting hats, share the approval of the French fashion makers. A pronounced slant downward on the right side, occasionally obscuring the vision of the right eye, is a mark of a correct hat, as is the bonnet shape, and an imitation of the French peasant's beret...
...time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar he makes. If he dies, Mrs. Hazay will get $2,000. If he falls ill, of any sickness, he will be paid $15 a week for as long...