Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ Temple Pentecostal Church of the World, Inc., which has blithely engaged in swelling its coffers through the soiled rentals of the Cotton Club, occupant of its premises, now insists that Mr. Solomon's organization has "damnified" its temple. The Christ Temple Pentecostal Church gently but firmly suggests that the indemnifying process will cost the Cotton Club just twenty thousand dollars. This sum is calculated to soothe the "outraged confidence" of its communicants, and to bolster up the "lost morale" of the Church...
There are only two conclusions to be drawn, and the Church's legal counsel, albeit unwittingly, draws them both in his voluble indignation. First an incredulous gallery is asked to believe that the Church authorities, through the period of Mr. Solomon's most brazen publicity, were solemnly unaware that the Cotton Club was aught but "an athletic and social organization." Amelia Sedley would have crossed her fingers at this, but when the counsel brightly interpolates that the Church, although a Boston incorporation, did not even know who was occupying their property, one suddenly feels that all bounds have been passed...
...very cynical asperity to state that the Christ Temple Pentecostal Church, Inc., protests too much. Its property, from which the missionary voice has not echoed of late, was, through the good offices of Mr. Solomon, an extremely profitable investment. Scarcely captions either is the suggestion that Christ Temple, Inc., has made good use of its tax exemption privilege. The posthumous reports of Mr. Solomon's wit may be exaggerated, but he surely told no one he was conducting an athletic organization." If the Pentecostal brethren chose to believe that he was somnolence or mendacity must be their alternatives...
Meanwhile in Chicago a similar group had gathered in the Federal Reserve Bank: Melvin Traylor (First National). Stanley Field (Continental Illinois), Philip Clarke (City National), Solomon Smith (Northern Trust), Howard Fenton (Harris Trust), Charles G. Dawes and their fellows. Theirs were similar problems: $350,000,000 had been drawn from the Chicago banks in two weeks, much of it by banks in neighboring territory where the banking disease was bad. Governor Henry Horner of Illinois sat with them till 5 p.m., then retired to the Congress Hotel to sleep. At 1:45 a.m. he was aroused by telephone and taxied...
...rounding out his first year in Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. New York's Owen ("Owney") Madden languishes in Sing Sing for parole violation and Larry Fay, onetime milk racketeer, departed this life New Year's Day, broke. Twenty-four days later Boston's Charles ("King") Solomon, interested in liquor, narcotics and white slaves, was pistoled to death in a Roxbury, Mass, night club...