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...Caldwell was in a much worse fix legally than Col. Lea. In the first place he was flat broke. In the second public sentiment was more bitterly arrayed against him. Last week at Nashville he went on trial for fraudulent breach of trust. The charge was that he had substituted inferior securities in his Bank of Tennessee as collateral for county deposits without getting, as agreed, the county's permission for the substitution. Overruled was his plea for a postponement of his trial on the ground that the Horton impeachment case inflamed public opinion against him. Fortnight ago Governor...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...
Though they will spend their money and playtime at Las Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would...
Responsibility for Harlan County's labor war was hard to fix. Governor Sampson blamed everything on "Reds and Communists," though Col. Carrell later said he could find no evidence to support this theory. Sheriff Blair accused disgruntled "left wing" union miners for the fatal ambush. Evarts' Chief of Police Asa Cusick insisted the deputy sheriffs guarding the mines were really to blame. The mine operators ingenuously pointed to "adverse freight rates" as the ultimate cause of trouble...
...people have heard of her husband, Isaac. Yet it was Isaac who first got hold of the basic formula for the Compound; he took it as part payment of a debt. In the hard times after the panic of 1873 Lydia, who never liked doctors, began to fix it up, pass it out to eager neighbors. The first bottle was sold in 1875. When Lydia got the idea of printing her picture with the ad, she soon became best known woman in the U. S. Pictures in newspaper offices were scarce; Lydia Pinkham's portrait often doubled for such...