Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This righteous and easy life did not satisfy Boltz. He discovered the stockmarket, and, in the '20s, made money at it. Soon he began to tell his friends about his North America Investment Fund, Inc., of his success in increasing its original $100,000 assets to over $1,000,000 by 1929. They bought $165,000 worth of its preferred stock. The common was good for loans from conservative National Bank of Germantown & Trust Co., from big, respectable Philadelphia National Bank...
Last week, as a memorial to Dr. Hollingworth, T. C. held a conference on Education for the Gifted. To it went 20 of her proteges, now in their late 20s to tell how they had fared...
...blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from 830,000 copies in 1933 to 1,225,000 in 1939, topping Mein Kampf by about...
...resolved to become a monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went onward & upward without much fuss or muss. He drifted into radio...
Died. J. Harold Murray, 49, handsome hero of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita, many another Broadway musical of the '20s, who retired from the stage in 1935, bought himself an interest in a Hartford brewery; at Killingworth, Conn...