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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early careers of Major General Crowder and General John J. Pershing were closely intertwined. Both were born in the same Congressional district in Missouri; both went to West Point, Chowder graduated 1881, Pershing 1886; both studied law; both saw service in the Apache and Sioux Indian wars, in Cuba, in the Philippines; both observed the Russo-Japanese War for the U. S. Government. Everyone knows the fireworks that attended the climax of General Pershing's history. But who knows what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things...
...hasty and economical midday lunch at a Thompson's restaurant where food is balanced on the broad-arm of a one-armed chair and 50c buys abundant calories to sustain life, has all unknowingly lunched with the Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support...
Fifty-nine years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...
...Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...
...that she wants to marry Lem Ross instead of Capt. Ezra Tuttle because she loves Lem but not Ezra. Mother faints. 2) Hester marries Ezra. He is cruel. 3) Eighteen years later Lem returns, wants Hester to run away and live in sin. She refuses on account of daughter born between scenes. Lugubrious Fog-Bound is lightened by Miss O'Neil's portrayal of Hester...