Word: bob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room for his mass studio parties...
Soon after Bob disappeared, New York's Assistant Attorney-General Watson Washburn announced that he had beea looking into the affairs of Metal & Mining Shares for some months. Gradually grave irregularities were disclosed. By the end of last week Assistant Attorney-General Washburn had made at least three disclosures of so grave a nature as to justify talk of warrants for arrest, indictments. Metal & Mining Shares had falsified an earnings report by which it showed $324,000 profit for the first half of the year. The list of investments which it reported was likewise falsified. The high-grade bluechips...
After asserting they had no part in the irregularities, Mr. Bob's associates held long, mysterious meetings, still maintained their chief's return was not far distant. In the offices of Rainbow Lumi nous Products, directors met for hours, hinted that new, strong interests were about to take hold, found the company decidedly solvent With these events the upward climb of Charles V. Bob seemed gravely impeded if not permanently halted. His whole story is the tale of a mining man who turned from the search of natural metals for the easier gold that lies...
...Bob's career started in Ely, Nevada, where around 1906 he was a practical mining man. In 1920 with Thomas F. Cole he raised enough money to finance the Comstock merger. He be came head of the combined companies, retained the position after the Cecil Rhodes South African group bought control...
With the formation of Charles V. Bob & Co. and a large personal investment in Rainbow Luminous Products he started the grand financial pace which he maintained until last week...