Word: making
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...room, and I wanted to take a shower. I came back to the room and I was talking to her when somebody knocked on the door and there was Stiglin. Stiglin says, 'What are you doing here?' I said, 'This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have...
...Republican party, but a Democrat: "He opposed President Coolidge io 1924, although on the ticket with him as a candidate. He opposed Hoover in 1928, supported Governor Smith. That is the last record we had of his participation in any election and if that doesn't make him a Democrat there is not a Democrat in the United States...
...defense was simple. Mr. Guzik, it argued, was not a "vagrant." He was a gambler. Do not Vice President Curtis and Governor Emmerson both attend race meetings? May it not be presumed that they make wagers at the race tracks? Did not Gambler Guzik own a fine home not a block away from State's Attorney Swanson's? Why, so far from being a reprehensible "vagrant," Mr. Guzik was a "credit" to the community. After brief deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "That's fine!" cried Mr. Guzik. "I knew you gentlemen would...
...chest for the entire Cape Peninsula. Mrs. B. Trevelyan, who struggles alone as general secretary of the South African movement in all its branches, rejoiced that despite great difficulties, her group collected £9,500 (some $46,000). The Cape Town city council permitted other organizations to make street campaigns simultaneously. Lamented Mrs. Trevelyan: "The public still have a very hazy idea of what a real community chest can be ... [only] a few staunch men have supported...
...William Averell Harriman and his brother, Edward Roland Noel Harriman, formed W. A. Harriman & Co. Work, say friends, burned out the senior Harriman. Unlike his father, W. A. Harriman is a strenuous athlete, famed chiefly as a poloist. In 1920 he set out to make the U. S. great upon the sea, formed an alliance with Hamburg-American Line. Thwarted in the fulfillment of this, he has endeavored to place the name of Harriman in the air as his father did upon the land, and last year his firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other...