Word: tor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about a whimsical mechanic's love life, the background is sketchily and conventionally treated. William Haines capitalizes his famed insouciance to the point of insufferability. Proving at the denouement that he is a good chap after all, he sacrifices the race to his pal, Ernest Torrence, best ac tor in the cast. Best shot: a car turning over on the track...
...German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes the D ok tor Eckener...
...called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
Radiator-Standard-Johns-Manville. To American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Mfg. came last month a merger. To the combination last week Johns-Manville Corp. came at least as close as rumors could bring it. Basis for rumors was election of Clarence M. Woolley, potent Radia- tor Chairman, to the Johns-Manville directorate, and the recent election of two "Morgan Men" to Radiator directorates. The Morgan House has lately been prominent in the management of Johns-Manville, having installed the late Theodore Merseles as president and succeeded him ? Uncle Charles A. Eaton represents New Jersey; Cousin William R. Eaton, lover...
...Blair & Co. (TIME, Dec. 10). Other famed directors are Halstead G. Freeman, president of Chase Securities, Charles Hayden, of Hayden, Stone & Co., E. F. Hutton, chairman of Postum Co., Inc. President is John H. Markham, Jr., head of the Exchange Bank of Tulsa, Okla., an independent oil opera tor. Petroleum Corp. will make its initial investments in Prairie Oil & Gas and Prairie Pipe Line?the two oil companies whose Rockefeller holdings (TIME, Dec. 10) were recently purchased by Blair...