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...young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired, fired, rehired on various San Francisco newspapers, the skyrocket of Jack Neylan's career was touched off in 1910 when the Bulletin assigned him to cover Hiram Johnson's campaign for Governor on the new Progressive ticket. Governor-elect Johnson took him to Sacramento as chairman of the new State Board of Control, for which Neylan...
Within two months after the last skyrocket boomed at the 1929 dedication, the whole inflated Foshay superstructure of utility, finance and real estate companies collapsed with a $20,000,000 thud. Last week Wilbur Burton Foshay was in Leavenworth Penitentiary, serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt...
...comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
They noticed a large boulder on the shore of the lake, about a quarter of a mile from home. They decided that when the shell was abreast of that rock they were to skyrocket the beat...
...House of Hohenzollern, as most Germans believe, backed Adolf Hitler with secret cash at the start of his skyrocket career, Investors Wilhelm II and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm must have groaned last week to see their Nazi equity apparently wiped...