Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Schulman, by his own $400 check drawn to M. Green, endorsed to Zuta, returned by the bank marked "payment stopped," and by other vouchers. Said the Judge: "I was in financial difficulties and I had to kite some checks. Green would get me a check and I would write one of my own . . . and date it a month ahead and give it to Green. I didn't pay any attention to the names on the checks." ¶ Chief of Police William 0. Freeman of Evanston, by a letter on official stationery, asking for "four C's" ($400). Chief...
...with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor on a southeast Texas farm, Nominee Sterling could not read or write until he was 21. From freight boat boy, he rose to keeping country store at Humble, struck oil there, organized Humble Oil Co. f(known as "Lucky Humble" because of its many gushers), sold out to Standard Oil of New Jersey for $12,000.000. Real estate and building in Houston...
...ticket seems ... of no importance. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism ... as unsound and impractical. But . . . the Telegram has no fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas and Heywood Broun. . . . Theirs is Socialism in name only. . . . Meantime, Broun will continue to write for the Telegram...
...Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven, enough to occupy an author 20 years. The temerity of the performance may be pardoned, however, for the deftness of its execution. It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks. Except for the overripe interpretive verbiage, the volume can be read with pleasure and profit by all but exacting and critical students of literature...
...Author. Jo Van Ammers-Küller, foremost Dutch novelist, was born in Delft (famed for ceramics and Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House...