Word: busness
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Fortnight ago Commissioner Allen set out on a week's junket, financed out of his own pocket. He took a train to Milwaukee, then traveled by street car and bus to Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago. Much of the time he went unshaven. He never spent more than $1.25 for a hotel room. Everywhere he presented him self as a candidate for work, in bread lines, at government relief stations, at employment agencies. When he got back to Washington last week he had something...
...invariable rule in Boston newspaper offices to identify a bustling young banker by the name of Joseph Patrick Kennedy as "the son-in-law of former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald." In 1914, on the strength of $5,000 he had cleared from a venture in a sight-seeing bus, the son of a Democratic ward boss married the daughter of Honey Fitz.* Good Catholics, the Kennedys had a child on the average of every two years, the ninth born in 1932. And when President Roosevelt remembered his old friend with a post on the Securities & Exchange Commission, he found...
...keeping politician named Patrick J. Kennedy. To "P. J." was born a son, Joseph, who went to Harvard and became a baseball player. After graduation in 1912, Joe turned down a job in the big leagues to try his hand in business. He and a friend bought a sightseeing bus for $1,200. The friend drove while Joe barked. They not only paid for their investment, but in the course of three seasons Joe cleared about $5,000. On the strength of that Joe married Rose, the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, another good democratic politician who at the time...
...children's small apartments or crowded little houses they were always in the way. Their pathetic attempts to make themselves useful were brusquely disregarded. They had nothing to do. They were very lonely. Even to see each other at lengthy intervals they had to sneak off, take wearisome bus rides, sit shivering on park benches because they had no money, nowhere to go. When Father Cooper caught a chill and died because his daughter-in-law was too stingy to get a doctor, his old wife tried to take it well. She tried to mean it when she said...
...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...