Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came up before a Federal court in Cheyenne (TIME, March 23, 1925), Mr. Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France. Mr. O'Neil has not been located since. Mr. Blackmer...
...from Mitten Management, Inc. This corporation, headed by Thomas Eugene Mitten and his son Dr. A. A. Mitten, has been remarkably successful in operating street cars, motor busses, taxicabs and a bank in Philadelphia, also a street car line in Buffalo. Their plan has been to permit employes to share in the management, investments and profits of their enterprises...
Last week the news came out that Miss Ederle has profited only $20,000 since the day she staggered onto the beach at Kingsdown, England. Her vaudeville act started out to earn $6,000 a week, of which her share was approximately one-third. Her father and Lawyer Malone took one-third of the gross between them; the theatrical agent grabbed 10%, leaving Miss Ederle to pay the expense account of more than $1,000 weekly out of her own share. Recently, her act has fallen considerably below the $6,000 mark...
...Louisiana, official evidence that the main flood is over was furnished by the resignation of onetime Governor John M. Parker as Relief Director. "The life-saving stage of the flood is over and my share of the task is done," he said. He added: "I feel it my duty to pay tribute to those whose work has been of untold value to the Mississippi Valley and especially to Herbert Hoover whose powers of organization, engineering and deep interest in humanity have again been manifested in saving more life and property than ever before in his memorable career...
...diffusion, itself, of such a mass of detail is not, however, without its own attractiveness. It but leaves the reader to share the work of artistry and from his knowledge of the subject covered, to select his own entertainment. Alumni will find the descriptions of men they knew and mention of comments and characterizations they may themselves have made or heard. Undergraduates will find the roots of many traditions and the sense of the dignity and aristocratic nature of academic work, which is even yet a part of the New England atmosphere...