Word: steen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to get undercover evidence against a fortunetelling gypsy, testified in court that the woman had cited two men, one fair, the other dark, as the cause of his own current unhappiness, admitted under defense questioning that he detested the assignment, given to him by fair-haired Detective Albert Steen, dark-haired Harry Horton...
Wesleyan has lost to two Ivy League teams, Brown and Yale, the latter by a score of 6 to 0. The Cardinal team is relatively new, with only two holdovers from last year--co-captains Jim Steen and Dick Cadigan. Both offensive and defensive troubles have plagued the team, and as one Wesleyan person put it, "We just seem to have an affinity for losing...
...game's fine points to her, Pat screamed the Senators to victory (5-1) in the first contest, then groaned while the Yanks shut out the locals, 9-0. ∙∙∙ A modern innocent-abroad on his first visit to Europe, Utah's Uraniumillionaire Charles Steen, disembarked in England from the Queen Mary, announced that he had never before rubbed shoulders with so many unsociable snobs as his fellow first-class passengers. "My wife and I were not spoken to during the voyage by any other passenger," said he. "I got so desperate that I tried...
From a mining syndicate headed by Baltimore's C. E. Tuttle and onetime General Services Administrator Jess Larson, Cord and associates collected $17 million for their uranium claims near Charley Steen's famed Mi Vida mine (TIME, June 27, 1955) in Utah's Big Indian district, the biggest price ever paid in the U.S. for uranium holdings...
Cord was not the only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord...