Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy. . . . We are all overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
...buying Russian oil to displace products of American origin in the European markets supplied in part by its foreign subsidiaries. The impression that the Standard Co. of New Jersey has any trade relations with the Soviet government is incorrect. . . ." This said, President Teagle sailed on his 55th trip to Europe. Last week he was in Paris...
...Health Commissioner of Buffalo, Dr. Francis E. Fronczak was host at the 55th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association there last week. The New York State Sanitary Officers Association and the Health Officers and Public Health Nurses of the state held related meetings...
...Burt Green Wilder, born in 1841, was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) in 1862 in anatomia summa cum laude. He served in the Civil War as surgeon of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (colored). Afterward he became curator of herpetology for the Boston Society of Natural History, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards...
...lecture and write. He wrote the words and music of Fiat Justitia, an international hymn for the first Universal Races Congress. He set Old Ironsides (by Oliver Wendell Holmes) and The Peacemaker (by Joyce Kilmer) to music. Before he died he set to work upon a history of the 55th Mass. Infantry...