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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Louis Warren Hill, 57, chairman of Great Northern Railway. Son of famed Great Northern Founder James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill, Louis Hill began working for Great Northern in 1893, became president in 1907, chairman in 1912. Said he: "My father advised me to retire from active participation in railway affairs when I reached the age of 40. That time came and passed 17 years...
...began President Masaryk, according to Dr. Rajniss, "an old man from whose eyes the veil of political passion has long since melted. I urge the people of Hungary to listen to my proposals while I am yet alive...
...rumors have been growing steadily more disquieting for at least three years. Last week was the climactic scare point. When news of the Manhattan break flashed to Rio, and when coffee futures began to fall there in sympathy, officials of the local Coffee Exchange became so apprehensive that that night they did not cable their closing prices to Manhattan as usual, fearing that the truth from Rio might aggravate the coffee landslide in the north...
Through drear winter months of pregnancy, her mother plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...
Boston, according to a recent statement by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, "is the most esthetic and intellectual city in the U. S." Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...