Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trod the beaten path of Franklin, possibly the most useful citizen that America ever had. When Franklin, in the middle of his career, had made a financial competence, he gave the rest of his life to the public service, and when he, too, was 80 years of age, and was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention, he said...
...opening of three prize competitions is announced today, two of which are the Susan Anthony Potter Prizes. The first of these consists of an award of $75 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish Literature of the Golden Age, and the second is a prize of $100 and a prize of $50 for the best thesis dealing with any subject in the field of Comparative Literature approved by the Chairman of the Department. The third competition is for the John Osborne Sargent Prize of $100, and will be awarded for the best metrical translation...
...line of diplomats, small is the wonder that Signor de Martino is able. He was born just over 56 years ago, was sent to school in England as a small boy, learned the English language perfectly and still speaks it without a trace of foreign accent. At the age of 23, he joined the Diplomatic Corps. Fifteen years later, he was First Secretary of Legation at Cairo and, in 1910, was promoted Italy's Minister Plenipotentiary and Diplomatic Agent at the same place. It was in this latter capacity that he became a warm and trusted friend of the late...
...forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about 75,000 acres of undeveloped coal fields, 150 producing mines, and an annual production...
...Drake Jr., son of John B. Drake, Chicago hotel man (Blackstone, Drake) ; in Chicago. Married. William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 29, champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress ; in San Diego. In procuring the license, Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man," Miss Taylor her age as 26 (probable age, 32). Died. Julius Fleischmann, 53, famed philanthropist, sportsman; in Miami, Fla. He dropped dead of heart disease while engaged in a game of polo. Son of Charles Fleischmann, founder of the famed Fleischmann Yeast Co., Mr. Fleischmann was elected Mayor of Cincinnati when...