Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn...
...with eleven grandchildren) at his summer lodge at Murray Bay, Quebec. Prior to convening his eight Supreme colleagues, he held a three-day conference with the senior judges of the U. S. Circuit Court. He informed President Coolidge that five additional Federal judges should be benched in Manhattan and Brooklyn to cope with the mounting arrears of Prohibition and tax cases...
Lighted Cigarets. A coin dropped in the slot of a new machine makes a cigaret fall with its end against an incandescent electric coil. The heat lights the cigaret, which forthwith drops out of the machine for the buyer to smoke on his matchless way. One William Cohen of Brooklyn invented the device...
Divorced. Mrs. Margaret Todd Smith, daughter of famed Brooklyn Shipbuilder William Henry Todd; from William H. Smith, Todd employe; at Reno...
...quarter finals, Frank Shields, the U. S. Junior Champion who lives in Brooklyn and has a serious face, beat famed Jacques Brugnon, the veteran of the French contingent, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0. Abruptly people realized that Shields had not yet, in his six tournament matches, lost a single set. Would he beat Cochet in the semifinals? Basing their predictions upon the failure of previous predictions, the experts admitted that he might. Shields didn't. In the finals, Hunter met Cochet...