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The jury, however, had got their wages raised by firm and united demands during the trial from $1 to $3.30 per day each. As quick-witted Latins they took exactly ten and a half hours to decide the 1,956 issues raised by the case. Through a galaxy of Paris...
Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City stood up to offer a resounding resolution which began by proposing "that we ... reaffirm our unanimous and unfaltering loyalty to our great President" and ended with a tribute to "the leader whose match less courage and faith in the people of our land has...
Died. Anne Moen Louise Bryant Reed, 41, widow of Harvardman and Soviet Hero John Reed, onetime wife of U. S. Ambassador to U. S. S. R., William Christian Bullitt; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Sevres, France. Pretty, sharp-witted, she married Reed in 1917, followed him from Greenwich Village to Moscow...
A vigorous opponent of sentimentality towards criminals, Mrs. Bonfils grows saccharine over little domestic tragedies. Nonetheless she hates being known as a sob-sister, snorts: "Most of them are sap sisters." A curious holdover from a bygone age, she still regards her professional harness with the romantic aura of an...
Of the four unsavory titans of 19th Century Wall Street, by far the meanest and most rascally was Daniel Drew (1797-1879), who was now with, now against rough "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, flamboyant James Fisk, piratical Jay Gould. Born on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., Dan Drew enlisted in...