Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Working days left: 49. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be averted: 11. Essential bills enacted last week...
...York City judgeships were being sold for cash by Tammany Hall. Two 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...
...exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...
...about 11 p. m. in full dress, accompanied by Thomas William Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. Looking taller than usual in his full dress, Mr. Young paused to peer down at and converse with small, able Isidor Kresel, counsel for Bank of United States, also the busy new special investigator of New York's magistracy scandals. Shortly before 3 a. m. Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman came, was hurriedly ushered into the conference room by James Herbert Case, chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who, for the public good, had previously agreed to head the merger into...
...charge of fraud was most emphatically denied by handsome young Luke Lea Jr. in the absence of his father. Young Luke, who looks much like the Colonel, is admiringly called a block chip by his father's friends. Before Luke Jr. was 21, Colonel Lea had a special bill put through the legislature to give him legal majority and qualify him as a responsible business associate...