Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
...professionals who years ago sang Schnitzelbank in its native beergardens while learning the difference between Pilsener and Münchener and putting finishing touches on their education at Berlin, Heidelberg or Güttingen, were as interested as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia's president, in a report which he issued last week in behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (of which he is also president). It was a report comparing pre-War and post-War enrollments in the German colleges. It could be tabulated as follows...
...Cierva, son of a Spanish diplomat, has been building air machines since he was 16. Eleven years ago a trimotored job which he designed crashed on its first flight with one of his friends. The accident set him striving for safety...
Marriage Disclosed. Homer Stillé Cummings of Stamford, Conn., onetime (1919-20) Democratic National Committee Chairman, twotime (1920, 1924) candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, twice divorced; to a Miss Cecelia Waterbury of Stamford; five months ago at Stamford...
...aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power and hull-size went into effect eight years ago...