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...Conductor Stokowski was married to Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him one daughter, divorced him twelve years later. In January 1926 he was married to Evangeline Brewster Johnson, surgical manufacturer's daughter, who bore him two daughters, divorced him last month (TIME...
...farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers. In time he got to be a cynical official of the city's Central Labor Union, an evil power in State A. F. of L. affairs, and served as a delegate to the historic...
...1920s grape-growers ripped out the first-class European vines-the Pinot and Senillon and Riesling, which bore less than two tons of grapes to an acre-and replaced them with indifferent vines which bore up to ten. Reason: Prohibition's amateur vintners bought grapes by quantity, not quality. The wine business continued turning out just about enough wine for the ecclesiastical trade, but the grape business prospered. California shipped about 16,000 carloads of grapes in 1918; by 1927 it shipped 73,000 carloads...
When Lawyer Ziegler went on to introduce leases changed in 1935 whereby 62½% of claim proceeds went to the lessors, documents that bore the large Berry signature, Senator Berry had already left the hearings, explaining that his presence was necessary for Senate consideration of the Farm Bill...
From the church, Prince and new Princess von Starhemberg went directly to file papers on the basis of which an Austrian court immediately declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...