Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of Milwaukee's First National Bank who pleaded guilty to a $1,500,000 embezzlement, onetime president of American Bankers' Association; of old age; in Milwaukee. Rising from runner to head of his bank and national fame, Banker Bigelow plunged into the wheat market in the wake of John Warne ("Bet a Million") Gates. With the connivance of subordinates, he tapped the bank's funds to finance his speculation. The Gates corner in May wheat collapsed in 1905; Banker Bigelow was trapped. Since serving six years of a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth, he had lived...
...ship's payroll, he makes a neat dive over the side and gaily dog-paddles toward a steamer bound for Honolulu. The queen has arranged to get the crew their money. When it arrives, she orders the destroyer to proceed toward Honolulu in the Captain's wake...
Professor William Vernon Cone, 35, neuro surgeon, who went to McGill from Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in the wake of Dr. Penfield...
...leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream Author Hanley owes much of the success of his early efforts to the wake of Richard Aldington and Poet Robert Graves in his country. John Dos Passes and William Faulkner...
Last week, in the wake of the Senate (where the vote had been 75-to-5), the House passed (363-to-13) a bill (H. R. 5315) to accomplish this purpose. Not only were injunctions by Federal courts to be severely limited but also the "yellow-dog" contract was to be legally exiled...