Word: personalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...county juries came to no decision on Judge Ewald's case, though a Federal jury indicted him on a mail fraud charge. It was with suddenness, after hearing another suspected judge testify secretly, that a special county jury indicted Mr. Ewald, including also his wife as the person who allegedly passed $10,000 to Tammany's agent. The judgeship resigned was that of Francis Xavier McQuade, whose part-ownership of and executive position with the New York "Giants" (baseball team) was considered prejudicial. Fresh on the inquisitorial pan, with hot fires of publicity making them hop, were three...
Since India is no Dominion, the person of her Viceroy, most important British administrative post, is not for her to choose but for the British Prime Minister to suggest. Labor politicians demanded that James Ramsay MacDonald pick a Labor peer for the post. He suggested Laborite Ronald Gorell Barnes, Baron Gorell, president (1920-22) of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, Under-Secretary of State for Air (1921-22), author of Love Triumphant, and Other Poems. This met with such violent Conservative, Liberal, and even Indian opposition on the basis of Lord Gorell's "inexperience," that...
...other hand it may be asked which of the persons charged with an offense gives evidence in the coolest and most self-possessed manner. My answer, gentlemen, is that it is the person charged with murder. I recall but few persons so charged who have not given their testimony in a quiet, confident, almost dispassionate...
...would lend 50% of Bank of United States' deposits as soon as balances could be checked. Proudly signing the Clearing House statement were two banks which had contemplated entering the four-ply merger?Manufacturers Trust and Public National Bank.?Their admission to the Clearing House relieved many a person of worry...
...unspeakably yellow journal, topped by a shrieking headline: "WAS PRESIDENT HARDING MURDERED? ... Did His Shellfish Illness in Vancouver Provide 'Alibi' for Subtle Poison Plot? ... 'I HAVE NO REGRETS,' SAID MRS. HARDING, OPPOSING AUTOPSY." Of Author Means the Sun said: "He knew (as no other living person) the entire confidential story of the White House. And Gaston Means-close mouthed, silent, efficient- did not talk-until-." The Sun also said: "This story is told as FACTS without the slightest attempt to make it spicy or to inject an element of sex." Other headlines on the page: "Harding...