Word: browne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville's new $5,000,000 municipal bridge (then unopened to the public-but since thrown open to traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited in the rain for the President on his scheduled route to the Brown Hotel. Plans were changed so that these routes were but partly used, the bridge was not crossed and thousands of those who made it possible for Kentucky to give Mr. Hoover a 170,000 majority last November, stood in the rain and were greatly disappointed when they learned of the change...
...Four years ago Bishop Manning engaged the Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Brown, money raisers extraordinary, to collect a $15,000,000 fund for the completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A campaign slogan, "A house of prayer for all people," helped extract gifts from Jews, Catholics, Protestants alike...
Appointed. Dr. Joseph Carter, one-time (1921-22) Brown University halfback and 100-yd. dasher, as admitting physician at Harlem Hospital; first Negro so appointed to New York City hospitals...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
...beneficial tonic to a morale that tends to become dispirited through the monotony of playing the same teams. In keeping with this attitude those in charge have arranged outside games for both the class and dormitory teams. The former have played Cambridge Latin, Rindge Technical, Boston English, Boston Latin, Brown & Nichols, Tabor Academy and Mechanic Arts; the latter have met the Andover Seconds, South Boston, Brown & Nichols, Thayer Academy and St. Paul's School. In the inter-class league, the informal outside games were preliminary to the objective class series. In the inter-dormitory league they were the objectives...