Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kelso. Wash., Albert Seifert. bank robber, was shot in the back and captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...
...your issue of May 1 is a letter from a wife of a grandson of Silver Dick Bland. This is of interest for two reasons: first, he has no such grandson, and second, the false lady tells a tale equally false. ... As his son, it is my privilege to try to inform her, and you also, as your journalism has been of the same genre...
...paper, ambitious in conception, abounding in hope and prophecy, eloquent in a style not unlike that of grandiose Publisher Hearst (whom he despises). To his friends in the wide world for which he has made Vancouver his lookout station he often mails copies of his writings- urging monetization of silver for a great new trade with the East; calling for magnanimous U. S. reduction of War Debts...
...public had never heard of him and even among bankers and industrialists his name meant little when, suddenly in 1928, Sosthenes Behn became master of Mackay-Postal telegraph system. When editors cried for a picture of the new successor to the late romantic silver-mining telegraph tycoon John William Mackay, all they could get was a fusty photograph of a man with a beard. This they printed only to be told that Sosthenes Behn had removed his beard some years before. But soon the public learned a lot about Sosthenes Behn...
CALL OUT THE FLYING SQUAD-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Inspector Silver, investigating a country murder, encounters Scotland Yard's pet criminal...