Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because July 4 is a holiday it seems unlikely that a business should celebrate its anniversary on that date. Yet this week in Chicago Crane Co. (valves, plumbing) celebrated its 75th anniversary on July 4.* The business was founded in 1855 by the late Richard Teller Crane. His original small frame building was completed July 3. Enthusiastic impatient, he would not rest on the holiday. Accordingly on July 4 he poured the first metal that went into a Crane Co. casting. Approximately 20,000 employes were last week celebrating that gesture...
When the first Richard Teller Crane died he was known as one of Chicago's great developers and industrialists, as traveler and philanthropist. That reputation extended to his five sons, three of whom are now alive, to whom Mr. Crane left his business. Of these Richard Teller Crane Jr. is present president of the company. Of him as of his father it is said that he would rather visit a Crane Co. shop than attend a theatre. He never flies although his wife's brother-in-law is famed flying Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. In his huge Lake...
Sons of Charles Richard Crane are Richard Teller 2nd and John Oliver. Richard Teller 2nd was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, serving as such at the same time that his father was Minister to China. John Oliver is a former secretary to President Thomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, last year married in Rome the beautiful Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti. A sister of John Oliver, Frances, is married to Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain...
...public reading of obscene literature. On the floor Senators braced themselves for a stirring day. Stacked on the desk of Utah's tall, leathery-faced Reed Smoot were such volumes as David Herbert Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover,* George Moore's Story Teller's Holiday, Frank Harris's My Life and Loves, Honore de Balzac's Droll Tales, the Kama Sutra, Robert Burns's, unexpurgated Poems, Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, Casanova's Memoirs...
...declares, first assigned in October 1921. to do private investigation for Mrs. Harding, then involved with a fortune-teller called Madam X who had told the President's wife that she was "a child of destiny." On her order, he sneaked into a married woman's apartment to recover communications between Madam X and Mrs. Harding and accidentally found letters from Dr. Charles E. Sawyer,? Harding's physician, to the married woman. These he turned over to Mrs. Harding, who, he says, was scandalized at having the White House desecrated...