Word: amanda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courtesy Sirs: A careful perusal of all reports of Graf Zeppelin maneuvers fails to reveal the arrangement by which U. S. sailors, soldiers, marines, hangars, et cetera are used to assist a private commercial undertaking. Will TIME testify? FRANCIS J. D 'AMANDA Rochester, X. Y. The U. S. served the Graf Zeppelin out of courtesy to a distinguished visitor; also because the U. S. Navy is an interested student of zeppelining...
...WOMAN OF IT-Clare Ogden Davis -Sears ($2.50). Though onetime assistant to Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, former Governor of Texas, Author Davis forgets whatever she may have learned of female politicians. Her novel contains the highly artificial story of a woman governor who sacrificed her politics for her man. Obvious, banal, stupid, didactic, the Davis style has all the anemia of a lady's home journal...
...fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa Barbara, California...
...Amanda Dent of Carthage, Mo., aged 97, sister-in-law of President Grant's wife. Reason: impressed by the Hoover acceptance speech...
...Amanda Lee Beaumont, dean of women at Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.: "Young women studying to be teachers spend much of their spare time reading up on beauty culture and etiquette in order to attain...