Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was observed to treat a certain Correspondent Carlisle MacDonald with less coldness than anyone else who covered him in Paris. Therefore Manhattan's Times sent suave Scot MacDonald from France to the U. S. on the same warboat that carried the Colonel home. Last week Mr. MacDonald, long since back in Paris, was strolling down the Rue de la Paix when the biggest French story of the week broke before his eyes...
...Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh and a beautiful girl were mentioned last week in Town Topics: "America-or that part of it which has not as yet been romantically enlightened-will be vitally interested to learn of the apparent interest Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Eppes Hawes display in each other. The famous conqueror of the Atlantic loses his vaunted indifference toward the fair sex when in the presence of the effervescent Eppes. Even this change of attitude is front page stuff, you know...
Power. Charles Augustus Stone, head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...
REPUBLICANS Votes Add i t i o n s t o H o o v e r i s m i n c l u d e d : Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Rea¬ son: (see "Testimonial"). Benjamin F. Yoakum, Manhattan finan¬ cier, oldtime Democrat, student of the f a r m p r o b l e m . President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College, since Wilson days a Democrat. Reasons: Prohibition, farm re¬ l i e f , f o r e i g n r e l a t i o n s . 1,000 Methodist...