Word: anders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...
...newspapers. First he took the two Public Ledgers (morning and evening) of Philadelphia. Last January he reached out to Manhattan and bought the New York Evening Post. In taking control of the Post he took possession of an heirloom. On the list of its editors and owners were Alex ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose...
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, made his second public speech since taking office. His first speech was made last May at the unveiling of a monument of Alex- ander Hamilton at the south end of the Treasury Building. Last week Mr. Mellon attended a ball given in Washington by the Investment Bankers' Association. Persistent demands brought him from retirement and the rear of his box to speak?barely a mouthful of words...
...Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette. If prizes can rescue some native Arthur Machen from drudgery ? give comparative freedom and leisure for so much as a year to some unrecognized Sherwood Ander son?by all means let us have prizes...