Word: alva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, "the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had"; Robert Marion La Follette...
...significance of this blatant commercialism only Reporter Alva Johnston of the New York Herald Tribune discerned. Other reporters contented themselves with chiropractic publicity "handouts." Commendably intelligent, he made stenographic notes of the speeches...
Elected. Carl Ewald Grunsky of San Francisco; to be President of the American Engineering Council; in Washington. Birthday. Inventor Thomas Alva Edi son; at Fort Myers, Fla. Date...
...Thomas Alva Edison went golfing for the first time in her life at Fort Myers, Fla. She missed her tee shot, drove 90 yd. on her second try, finished nine holes in 99. Next day she ordered a set of clubs. Her husband is no golfer...
Sample tax refunds: Mary Pickford Fairbanks ($10,163), John Davison Rockefeller ($157,227). Mortimer Schiff ($429,804), estate of William Jennings Bryan ($8,253), California Wine Association ($23,116), Thomas Alva Edison ($923), Edna Ferber...