Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been one of their farmer acquaintances; 2) had turned bootlegger; 3) had made a fortune in the days when Capone flourished; 4) had been sent to Atlanta. If the Aults could help him get out of prison, said Mrs. Ault, Max Orendorff had promised to make it well worth their while...
...which Son Robert took to get their wealthy friend, Orendorff, freed. Then came the exciting word that he had been released. Then came word that he had died, leaving loyal Maude Ault and her son all his holdings in Illinois and Texas real estate, oil lands worth from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. To help the Aults collect their vast inheritance, Mr. Bandy put up more money. A Chicago business man named Newton F. Grey, said the Government, invested $76,890. From other investors the Aults got some $40,000 more. But the Orendorff fortune never materialized. Last...
...British and French secret services did not know all this they were not worth their pay. That they did know it and did report it was made fairly evident at week's end when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, badgered by Parliament for being taken by surprise by Herr Hitler's coup, blurted out that he had known something was in the wind as early as the Saturday before the Wednesday of the grab. He also said he had reported it to the British...
What the British could do to harry Hitler at once they did. Like the French they recalled their Ambassador "for a report." Like the U. S., they refused to recognize the seizure and thus locked up an estimated $60,000,000 worth of Czech funds in London. The U. S., in addition, set up a 25% higher tariff wall against the products of Greater Germany (see p.11...
When he heard about the accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...