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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point in 1898, was a first lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. During the World War he was Adjutant General of the A. E. F. In April, 1922, he was made Acting Adjutant General of the U. S. Army and took charge...
...born, as time rolled...
...collective characteristics and statistical pecularities of another Harvard graduating class are brought to light. The industrious compiler, in avid pursuit of the facts about his fellow students' existence, discovers what professions the members of the present graduating class intend to enter, how old they are, where they were born, and certain unusual conditions of their present lives. In other words he lays before us facts which differentiate this class from all others, and which should point out important tendencies of the present generation of college graduates...
...very tender age, the bulk of the class have passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands. The number seems large and the array of countries represented is imposing, but, on the other hand, half the class comes from Massachusetts and the greater part of these from Boston and its immediate vicinity...
...Priest Ingersoll talked intimately of Hell Fire," but his son talked intimately of God.* Such was his son's intimacy that he scoffed at his Creator on all possible occasions, scoffed also at other creations of his Creator. Remembered now mainly for a tag about one born a minute which has been tied to his name, he was once notorious for his irreligion, notable for his oratory, famed for his political victories, defamed for drunken outbursts of atheism. Son of a Congregational minister, the future spellbinder was taken from Dresden, N.Y., to Wisconsin at 10, in 1843. The Illinois...