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...announced that it would appeal the decision. Cy Eaton was in a tight spot and he knew it; his welshing on the deal was the first such case since the Securities Act of 1933. But he had squeezed out of many a tight spot before. In the '20s, Eaton and associates wielded great power through big holdings in Republic Steel, United Light & Power, and Continental Shares. In the depression, Eaton lost millions of dollars. He made his comeback with such ventures as Canada's Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. (TIME, Sept. 29, 1947), organizing the Portsmouth Steel...
During the four years he was a reporter, Thurber registered countless impressions that he could not have gotten into any newspaper. These were filed away in his memory, and he began working them into enchanting monologues for the amusement of his friends. In the '20s and '30s, to sit with drink in hand and listen to Jim Thurber off on a free-association talking marathon was an indescribable pleasure...
...Every kind of criminal, from Western train robber to international jewel thief, fell before them. In 1886, they solved a New Orleans murder case in which the main clue was an obscure African poison injected from a hollow needle into the leg of a pretty girl. In the '20s, they caught a bigamist who gave as his reason for burning his second wife the indisputable fact that "it is hard for a man to support two wives...
...puts it, "The painters had the luck-the bourgeoisie liked the colors. But the poor sculptors! The women were afraid the corners would catch the plumes in their hats." Few prospective buyers took notice of Laurens' experiments in wood and stone. In the '20s, Laurens began smoothing his angles and swelling his planes into ripe curves. "I felt I was drying out," he explains. "I wanted something more sensual. I wanted to do the things that laugh, above all what there is in a truly feminine woman. Cubism was too strict. I wanted to humanize." Trips...
...outfit famed for its toughness, leathery, rock-jawed Brigadier General Lewis Burwell Puller, U.S.M.C., is as tough as they come. In the '20s, as a young marine, he led native troops against bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua, so awed his troops with his parade-ground voice and his gallantry in battle that they named him El Tigre. By 1932, "Chesty" Puller had won two Navy Crosses and was well on his way to becoming a legend of the Corps. He served with the "Horse Marines" at Peking, with the famed 4th Marines at Shanghai in the days...