Word: austin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five U. S. makes which led, last year, in exports to Czechoslovakia were : Cadillac Packard Chrysler Ford Chevrolet trucks Soon the Skoda Arsenal will bring out a very light six in competition with Chevrolet, just as in China the Mukden Arsenal plans to compete with the British Baby Austin by building Baby Dragons...
...School of Architecture is now holding an exhibition of oil paintings by Raymond Everett '09, of Austin, Texas, who is Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Texas and was formerly a student in the School of Architecture at Harvard. The paintings were done in Texas and in Mexico. They are shown at the old Fogg Museum and will be on view from Wednesday, March 27 through Saturday, April...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
Evidence of the great business done by publishers of "sets" lies with the promoters of Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc.?Walter F. Austin (president) and Charles Lipscomb (treasurer). They, with one Vincent Parke, publish Great Events of the Great War. Because the American Legion endorses the book and hence gives book agents a talking point and entry to Legionary homes, the Legion gets 3% on each sale. Its income so far amounts to $135,907.45, which means $4,500,000 worth of books sold by the publishers and more than $1,000,000 in commissions for the salesmen...
Died. Col. William Stewart Simkins, 86, of Austin, Tex., professor-emeritus of law at the University of Texas; in Austin. On the morning of April 12, 1861 so the story goes, a Confederate sentry on duty near Charleston Harbor fired an alarm signal which opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The sentry was William Stewart Simkins...