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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millions of U. S. cinemagoers looked and listened last fortnight as a grey-haired woman pleaded piteously on the screen for her family's good name. No movie mother whose son had gone wrong was she, but Mrs. Albert Bacon Fall, wife of the man whom a Washington jury convicted last month of committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny...
...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
That Laura J. Moody, 18, whose family physician pronounced her spinal cure "a miracle," had already been discharged from Boston City hospital. Hospital officials said: "The majority of her trouble was hysteria...
Expelled from Germany last year as an "undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
...enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group...