Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personal knowledge, Mr. Shearer was on good terms with every member of the American delegation, with the exception of two chief delegates, Ambassador Gibson and Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones...
...found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club secretary. Baseman Shires was suspended from the White Sox. Charles Francis...
...short side to the extent of 30,000,000 ounces. No El Dorado but an El Argento is China. It is the only important country on a silver basis currency. For many a year it has been one of the chief markets for U. S., Canadian, South American silver. But lately silver prices have decreased, the Chinese market slowed. Reasons: overproduction of silver in the U. S., Mexico. Then, too, India, once a great Chinese silver buyer, has been selling instead of buying. France and Belgium in the last two years have sold 40,000,000 ounces of silver. Inevitably...
...week, however, came a reminder of the fact that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus...
...subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled, and are expansions of the original United Gas Improvement Company which supplied gas to Philadelphia. Commonwealth and Southern Corp. is a holding company for Commonwealth Power Corp., which in turn operates companies all the way from Michigan to Georgia. Its largest single holder is American Superpower which has some 10,000,000 shares. Allied Power & Light is also a holding company, operating chiefly in the middle west, its list of operating companies partly duplicating the Commonwealth & Southern group. Columbia Gas & Electric centres in Ohio and West Virginia, Cincinnati being one typical Columbia-served city...