Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Santa Barbara, Calif., came a report that Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh was piloting Banker John J. Mitchell Jr. to Chicago. As every Chicagoan knows, young Banker Mitchell's father had been President of Illinois Trust for nearly 50 years. Deep and abiding was the impression made by the elder Mitchell on U. S. finance. Himself the son of a banker, he became a power not only in Chicago but in Manhattan's Wall Street. His counsel guided such tycoons as George M. Pullman (Pullman cars) and Cyrus H. McCormick (International Harvester...
Even the pro-prohibition professors applauded. They, in an outspeaking mood, were not inclined to resent outspeaking Brown Derbyism, especially since the equitable chairman of the prohibition roundtable, Prof. Augustus Raymond Hatton* of Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) had opened his discussion as follows...
Died. Frederick William Louis Leopold Augustus, 71, onetime (1907-18) Grand Duke of Baden, brother of Queen Victoria of Sweden, uncle of the German Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) who arranged the terms of the armistice, last of a line of sovereigns nine centuries old; of heart disease; at Badenweiler, Germany...
...York Sun (Republican) contrasted the grudging White retraction with the forthright retraction of another Kansas-bred journalist, Editor Gene A. Howe of the Amarillo, Tex., Globe-News, who last week said that he had erred in attributing a "swelled head" to Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...