Word: israel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Faculty re-appointments have also been made as follows for one year from September 1, 1936: Victor de Gerard, instructor in Russian; and Phillip A. Shelley, Charles F. Barnason, Albert F. Buffington, James M. Hawkes '26, Martin A. Henry, Ashbury H. Herrick, and Israel S. Stam '28, instructors in German...
...Frank Akin, a Portland, Ore. public accountant, was found shot dead in his apartment. Two days later one Mark M. Israel, a Portland jeweler and loan broker who had employed Akin to audit his accounts, gave police and a Portland Oregonlan reporter a sensational clue which he said Akin had confided to him. His story was that Akin had had a mistress who had frequently threatened to kill...
When Editor Tom Shea of Scripps' Portland News-Telegram saw this story splashed on the Oregonian's front page, he promptly assigned a reporter to interview the murdered man's widow. Mrs. Akin hotly denied the tale, declared that her husband would never have confided in Israel because he knew Israel was a thief and hated him. When he read that statement in the News-Telegram, Jeweler Israel sued the paper for libel, asking $100,000 damages...
...many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D., he is prouder of his legs, which he considers a finer pair for riding than Edward of Wales's. He has hunted a great deal in England and once stayed a fortnight with the Prince...
...when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline, tossed '"Swifty" White into the street for making a nuisance of himself...