Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illinois. The Campaign Funds Investigating Committee of the U. S. Senate has opened headquarters in Chicago to sift charges that three millions were flung back and forth by the supporters of Frank L. Smith and Senator William B. McKinley in last month's primary. The star witness will be a pompous little man whose brain seems to live on huge financial figures, while his stolid personality presides over the gas works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that...
...Fred Thomson). The newest star of the open spaces has a great horse and a terrible sense of plot. He is employed in an old-fashioned howler about the gang of desperadoes trying to do the old father out of his ranch. The young son comes back from the war, congressional medal and all, just in time. There is also a girl and a beautiful white horse. The latter is good enough even to make Tom Mix's Tony jealous...
When it was announced last week that the Kansas City Star and its morning edition, the Times, had been sold to a syndicate representing the present editors and managers a flood of congratulatory telegrams poured in. The Star had come into the market upon the death of the daughter of its late owner, Colonel William Rockhill Nelson, and friends of the newspaper waited in trepidation for the announcement of the buyer. Among those who expressed their satisfaction that the Star was to remain with the men who had made it were governors, cabinet members, editors, ambassadors, politicians, for the Star...
...Many congratulations to the Star. With sympathetic understanding of your feelings." It came from Walter A. Strong, general manager of the Chicago Daily News whose late owner, Victor F. Lawson, left the paper to be sold that the proceeds might be given to Congregational Church works (TIME, Jan. 4). Mr. Strong and his associates have good reason to sustain sympathetic understanding of the feelings of men who stood recently in danger of being deprived of all interest in an enterprise to which they had given the best energies of their lives, or else of being, in Arthur Brisbane...
Colonel Nelson was an able and conscientious editor. His paper was a paper of "ideals"-none more so. His habit of printing a great deal of miscellaneous but accurate information about science, invention, exploration, literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those...