Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
...succeeded his father (who retired) as president. One of the most eligible bachelors in New York, Teutonic, punctilious Jacob Ruppert, who had been appointed a colonel on Governor David B. Hill's staff, served four terms in Congress, bought a stable of race horses, raised blue-ribbon St. Bernard dogs, collected little monkeys, began to pick up choice parcels of Manhattan real estate...
Mercantile-Commerce (St. Louis...
...seven: Columbia Conserve Co.: Nunn-Bush Shoe Co.; Welsh Co. (St. Louis baby carriage manufacturer): Berkshire Knitting Mills; Northwest Metal Products Co.: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Western States Envelope...
...foggy day last week three sandaled elephants, followed by Cinemactor ("Elephant Boy") Sabu in a Rolls-Royce, ambled from St. Katherine's Docks to Mincing Lane with 37 silver and chromium chests of tea. Auctioneer William J. Thomson, grandson of the 1839 William J., knocked them down at prices ranging from $6,000 for the silver to $100 for the chromium to bigwig tea merchants, brokers and producers. Thus celebrated was the Empire Tea Centenary; thus furthered was a publicity drive to spur Britain's great tea trade...