Word: 77th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked if he could suggest a good man for city manager of Cincinnati. The Wartime Secretary of War recommended Lieut. Colonel Clarence Osborne Sherrill, who was then serving as director of the capital's grounds & public buildings by appointment of President Harding. A staff officer of the 77th Division during the War. Col. Sherrill had been an Army engineer for nearly 24 years, could have retired in a year and a half. Cincinnati's offer was $25,000 but the city's brand new reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took...
...deal. In Wilmington three prime examples of helter-skelter public utility holding companies were dusted off -Central West Public Service, Consolidated Gas Utilities. National Public Utilities. And from coast to coast countless other corporations or their long suffering security holders rushed for shelter under the wide roof of Section 77th...
...philosopher who guided the nation from 1913 to 1921. Ten years after Thomas Woodrow Wilson's death, twelve years after he had been taken from the White House dying from heartbreak and other diseases, Woodrow Wilson Clubs foregathered in 124 U. S. towns and cities to celebrate the 77th anniversary of their idol's birth...
Guest of honor at a dinner preceding the 77th annual Charity Ball for the New York Nursery & Child's Hospital, was white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted...
...77th birthday Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of $83,000,000 Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...