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...running a general store. In return for $64 worth of supplies, two German silver-diggers gave him a one-third interest in anything they found. His share turned out to be worth more than $1,000,000. Tabor acquired a better mine from a swindler who, thinking his land worthless, had sprinkled silver on top of it without bothering to look beneath the surface. Equipped with fabulous wealth, Tabor gave Denver a munificent opera house with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. He got himself elected lieutenant governor, divorced his wife, Augusta, to marry a mining...
...think I have one of the best farms in Illinois but I'm having difficulty making enough money out of it to pay taxes." It was as an Illinois rustic rather than as a smart financial mind of Washington that he was swindled out of $7,500 on worthless stock by two New York slickers (TIME, Dec. 5)* In Washington the Raineys live in a small apartment on 16th Street. She works around his Capitol office, reads the Congressional Record for him, has been on the House payroll for $208.33 per month as his secretary. On Saturdays they answer...
...story of opera singers and conductors turning fat pay checks into engraved stock certificates, then suddenly finding those certificates worthless and themselves out of jobs, was given to the Chicago Daily News by Emma Redell, large Baltimore-born soprano who sails this week to give 30 concerts in Russia on the invitation of the Soviet Government. Soprano Redell did not invest in Samuel Insull's utility corporations but she told a tale which made the News investigate the circumstances and whereabouts of Chicago Civic Opera artists who did. Said she: "Whenever some one would be engaged always there would...
...successfully used to bargain for better trade opportunities and arms cuts? If the U. S. insisted on full payment of political debts, would U. S. private debts abroad be imperiled? Such were some of the questions of the Hoover-Roosevelt conference. Any decision reached at the White House was worthless without the concurrence of Congress, and Congress seemed to have made up its mind firmly against any leniency toward Debtor Europe. President Hoover was informed by long-eared Senator Reed of Pennsylvania: "I've not found a single member of Congress who will vote for a suspension of debt...
...excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns, the merchants hotly protested, were "decent." Did Dr. Bracht want to see them on the backs of mannequins? ( Dr. Bracht saw that he must avoid making himself ridiculous. Declining the mannequin parade, he announced a "liberal'' interpretation of his decree. Gowns could...