Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform the law, to have an outing, to see the great, some 4,000 lawyers last week congregated in October-cool Memphis for the 52nd annual meeting of the American Bar Association...
Called smartest U. S. director, King Vidor grew up in Galveston, Tex., went to Tome School in Maryland. When he left school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little money out of it. Several years later, after marrying Florence Vidor, not then famed as a cinemactress, he got his first good job writing and directing stories for General Film Co. Recently he was divorced by Florence Vidor, married Eleanor Boardman whom he directed in The Crowd...
Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...
Potential travelers to the Riviera who think that they can ask every sort of question about the new route at the French Government's Office du Tourisme, No. 4 East 52nd St., Manhattan, may be piqued to discover that certain quaint and prudent conditions are imposed. In an "authorized and official" French Government release it is stated: "Any legitimate questions regarding travel in France, sent to this bureau in good faith will receive quick attention and reply...
From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...