Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West jury believed Coalman Gramm's story, acquitted his brother-in-law. They took no stock in the testimony of Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alfred Oftedal, who told how Congressman Michaelson had visited him in Washington to discuss liquor and smuggling. Mr. Oftedal said that the Congressman had ejaculated: "To hell with generalities! What about my case? Am I going to have to see Ogden Mills [Undersecretary of the Treasury] about it again? What about those six trunks of mine at Jacksonville? I had freedom of the port...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
...great test preliminary for the Epsom Derby is the Thousand Guineas for fillies, run last fortnight at Newmarket, won by Taj Mah. Another favorite for the Epsom Derby is Cragadour, Lord Astor's colt. Drawings were announced last week in the ?1,000,000 ($4,860,000) London Stock Exchange Derby Sweepstakes. This year two tickets were issued for each of the 335 Derby entries. A ticket on Cragadour was drawn by one Jimmie Gibbs, aged...
...oldest, best established and most widely accepted method is through lobbying. The next step led to an effort to increase the number of small stock holders, who would naturally support the company in any conflict with the state. This also has been recognized as a sound and fair business method. The most recent efforts, however, have taken on a different form, and have been directed towards capturing public opinion. The newspapers and schools, as the most powerful mediums in this field, have felt the business man's hand in no uncertain way, and in both cases exploitation took place under...
...handing you herewith check . . . for $2,781,158.30 . . . to repay in full to date with interest your investment in the securities of the Brooklyn Publishing Corp. [which controls the stock of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle], the Albany Press Co. (The Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News) and the Ithaca Journal-News...