Word: ballard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gallons of water, which supplies the automatic sprinkler system of the largest fruit canning factory in the world- the James D. Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Mr. Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...
This mild magazine cover farce, improbable and not hilarious, was written by Fred Ballard, who did so much better with Believe Me, Zantippe, and by Charles A. Bickford, who acted a hardboiled newspaper egg in Chicago...
Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Chisholm Trail", the imminent production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, derives it name from a cowboy song of the 'seventies, "The Old Chisholm Trail." This ballard, of unknown authorship, was sung on the range from the Rio Grande to the Manitoba border...
...Offering", since upperclassmen are restrained by law from forceful hazing. ¶ Columbia University, in its 174th year, welcomed 64 foreign students from 31 foreign countries. After a year's study, many of them will return to their native lands to apply U. S. educational methods. ¶ At the Ballard School of the Y.W.C.A., Manhattan, girls are offered a Personality Course. Said Miss Jeanette Hammill, director: "I suppose most women look forward to being married and wish to know the secrets of personality that they may make themselves as pleasant as possible to husbands as well as to people generally...