Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrived in Vienna one Carl Tucker, Manhattan pianist. He told how one Bill Cannon, Standard Oil Co. driller, had ignited through friction the deepest oil well at Moreni, Rumania. Cannon immediately ordered all the men to leave the danger zone. As he himself fled from the roaring flames, an angry Rumanian crowd attacked him for causing the fire, now rapidly spreading. Cannon's revolver, however, cowed them...
...Townsend, New York; Mrs. John Lowell, Boston; Mrs. N. T. Bacon, Providence, R. I.; Mrs. A Crittenden Smith of Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Heinz, Pittsburgh; Conde Nast and Miss Natica Nast, New York; Miss Louise Berid and Colonel and Mrs. Robert Roos, San Francisco; Mrs. R. F. Tucker, a daughter of Colonel and Mrs. E. M. House; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Mrs. Capper, Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee and Mrs. Hull, and many another...
...return the difference to the Treasury if they chose. Of the 531 Congressmen and Senators, only one has sent back the difference. Every month after the pay checks are sent out, he returns a check for $208.33. It is a point of honor with him. His father, John Randolph Tucker, onetime Representative, once refused a similar salary increase and had himself especially exempted from taking it in the appropriation bill. So Representative Henry...
...George Tucker of Lexington, Va., gives the Government $208.33 monthly and 530 others...
...Perkins, F. deW, Pingree, H. I. Pratt, Donald Reynolds. K. M. Rogers L. H. Roots, Carlos Sanchez, R. H. Schacht Jr., L. H. Sherrill, G. E. Smith, Donald Spencer, A. H. Stafford, W. S. Stone, R. K. Stover D. LeB Sweeney, B. A. G. Thorndike, R. D. Tucker, R. F. Vance, C. F. Victor Jr., B. A. Wallingford, Hamilton Warren, J. N. Watters, Winthrop Wetherbee Jr., F. P. Weymer, T. R. Wickersham, Austin Wood, Daniel Wood, Kennard Woodworth...