Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...karat piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent...
...oldster was Pliny Fisk and his fun began in 1881 when he graduated from Princeton to the investment banking house of his father, Harvey Fisk, who had made a fortune helping the Union finance the Civil War. Four years later Pliny Fisk became the firm's trader on the floor of the Exchange, was there christened by his bearded fellow-members the"apple-cheeked boy of Wall Street." But Broker Fisk soon cut a man-size figure. In a few minutes one afternoon he sold $2,000,000 worth of securities to Hetty Green-after the doorman had tried...
...eventually recovered, but not before he "lost control of things." He quit Harvey Fisk & Sons, sold his Exchange seat for $55,000. Faulty judgment slowly took his millions. In 1924 he sold the Riviera and his $500,000 house in Rye. He dropped out of his clubs-the Union League, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht...
...that Bell's first words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...
Schedules of Consultation Hours of House Representatives are posted in the Union and University Hall...