Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene in court was peculiar. Clerks, bookkeepers, an accountant, a broker, a printer, a contractor and one resident of Park Avenue protested. Some laughed, others grew terribly angry, two waxed bellicose...
...born in a small village near Canton, where the people are the "old" Chinese, driven south centuries ago. As a boy, he traveled far to reside with his brother, a prosperous contractor, at Honolulu. There the spark of revolt against the lethargic and superstitious regime of the Son of Heaven was ignited. His brother feared for him, sent him back to his native village; but he had not long been there before he committed an act of irreverence toward a village god and was consequently expelled...
That the Athletic Association has definitely given up its plans for installing a Finnish bath in the new wing of the Soldiers Field Locker Building, was made known at the H. A. A. last night. The contractor and men in charge of the new addition have been doubtful for some time as to the practicability of the scheme and have decided, temporarily at least, to leave the proposed bath out of the plans...
Charles R. Forbes. The former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Charles R. Forbes, had been on trial for some weeks in the Federal District Court in Chicago, with one John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor. They were accused of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the letting of contracts for hospitals. Last week the case was given into the hands of the jury. The jurymen were immured for almost five hours. During that time, the defendants sat smiling and chatting with friends and their attorneys ? Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis...
...chief witness for the Govern-ment is Elias H. Mortimer, who tes- tified last year before the Senate investigating committee. He testified that he entered into an agreement with Contractor Thompson and an associate (one Black, now dead) to procure hospital contracts for them in consideration of 35% of the profits that they should make. He also declared that he had made an agreement with Mr. Forbes for an equal division of these proceeds between the two of them. He told of giving Mr. Forbes various sums at several times, paying Forbes' traveling expenses on a trip...