Word: wr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when ruddy, jovial Jim Curley was Mayor of Boston, a city water connection burst, flooding the premises of General Equipment Corp. From Ernest Wr. Brown Co., its insurance agency. General Equipment collected $70,199.29. The agency salvaged $15,488.15 worth of equipment, was left $54,711.14 out of pocket. Thereupon the agency, represented by Lawyer Santosuosso. sued the City, settled its claim out of court for $85,000 of taxpayers' money...
...Morgan and formulating the idea which later grew into his Church's $30,000,000 Pension Fund, his son was a tall, handsome Harvard senior, completing his course six months ahead of his class and returning to coach the fresh man baseball team. Schooled thereafter for the Church, Wr. Appleton Lawrence got his first cure in 1913, as assistant in Grace Church in Lawrence, Mass., where his forebears had owned mills and where his father held his first and only rectorate...
Photographer George Shelton of William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder...
President and Board Chairman Gates Wr. McGarrah; $50,000 (as president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, his last job, he also received...