Word: started
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...unsavory judiciary conditions was Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, who wanted to be governor (TIME, Aug. 25). When Charles T. Grain, New York County's district attorney and a Tammany man, failed to get an indictment in the Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover all New York...
...went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name...
Next was born TripleX. Under the same basic title, the magazine would follow public taste like a weather vane, giving in turn stories of war, flying, crime, etc. Currently it is Triple-X Western (115,000). Author Jim Tully got his start when Triple-X first published his Beggars of Life...
Eventually Mr. Mitchell was admitted. The gathering he saw was probably as great in dollar-power as any similar meeting ever held. Perhaps Mr. Mitchell recalled the momentous meeting in 1907, the year he arrived from Chicago to start his Manhattan banking career...
Wesley once encountered Beau Nash, professional dandy, who was foolish enough to start an argument. Nash, objecting to Wesley's sermons, admitted he had never heard one, but said he judged them by common report. Said Wesley: "Sir, I dare not judge of you by common report...