Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashionable nowadays for newspapers to be connected, financially or by reputation, with public utility companies. Last week Ira Clifton Copley, publisher of 23 chainpapers in Illinois and California, took the trouble to go to Washington and volunteer a statement to the Federal Trade Commission, whose investigation of the methods, rates and propaganda of interstate public utilities continues. A little more than a year ago, Nebraska's thin-lipped Senator George William Norris had charged in open Senate that the Copley papers are financed by "Power-Trust money," and are connected with the interests of Samuel Insull, public utility pope...
...loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line...
...away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth...
...canyons, and, of course, cameras for a background. She had grown up and gone to school in Philadelphia and studied painting and interior decorating because she wanted to be able to do something. She had been trying to get in the film business as an art director when she took her first role as an extra. That was five years ago, in Souls for Sale. She has appeared in several mediocre pictures?The Auction Block, Tell It to the Marines?and in one masterpiece, The Crowd, which was directed by her husband, King Vidor...
Born in Chicago 33 years ago, Editor High took an A.B. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1917, later an S.T.B. from Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...