Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, N. Y., seven bandits, masked with white handkerchiefs, interrupted a dinner party long enough to obtain jewels valued at $400,000 from assembled socialites. Mrs. Philip Metz, daughter of Norman Edward Mack. New York's Democratic National Committeeman, lost $60,000 worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire...
Appointed. Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt III of Manhattan; to command the 77th Division, U. S. A. Reserve, of which the celebrated "Lost Battalion" was a unit...
...Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed at even lower prices later in the slump week...
...Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
...prove anything on a basis of comparative scores. What is probably the weakest college team in the whole country, Delaware, was taken as a starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively...