Word: tele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indulged in Jew-baiting, really had a Jewish grandfather, Selig Abraham Düsterberg. According to Der Angriff Col. Düsterberg's grandmother was of Jewish descent too, his great-grandfather was administrator of the Jewish culture society in Paderborn in 1824. Immediately followed a despatch from the Jewish Tele graph Agency that Col. Düsterberg had resigned his position with the following bitter announcement: "I actually originated from Jews, but I have only now learned the fact myself...
...down to City Hall. There's a statement there for you." And the Mayor went up to his apartment, tried to tele phone the news to his wife on Long Island (she was out), took a cold shower, went...
...with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping the ditches), they found the Irish Republicans in command of the town, marching and countermarching in the streets, directing traffic with a flourish...
...dine. There he and Ambassador Edge reviewed the French position on the Hoover plan. Next day after a formal luncheon he sat long and solemnly with Premier Laval. Later he matched figures and wits with Finance Minister Flandin. Then he went back to the Embassy and asked the tele- phone operator to get him the President of the U. S. His gentle voice promised Mr. Hoover a report, after further negotiations, on which the U. S. could base its reply to France...
...extent of the Baker fortune. Estimates have run as high as $500,000,000. In 1924 he and his son paid an income tax of $1,575,000. The most important Baker holdings include: 87,000 shares of United States Steel, 74,000 shares of American Telephone & Tele- graph, 204,000 shares of New York Central, 6,100 Pullman, 713,000 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. Other "Bakerstocks" include American Can and National Biscuit. He has been friendly with the Van Sweringens...