Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellowstone are more than 20,000 elk, 2,000 deer, over 800 buffalo, 500 moose, 600 big horn sheep, more than 400 antelope, hundreds of bears, and other animals without number...
...obvious that any legislation enacted by Congress dealing with anthracite must be similarly superimposed upon the bituminous industry. Such a contingency would be decidedly embarrassing to such friends of Mr. Hammond as the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Consolidation Coal Company, the Bethlehem Mines Corporation and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway coal interests, all of which have torn up their agreements with the United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political...
Grover Cleveland, of Buffalo, N. Y., was beginning his second term as U S President when a man named Walter Platt Cooke, recently come of age, put his legal services in the Buffalo market. He knew Buffalo-it was about the only city he did know. It had supplied his crib, his rattle, his roller skates, his education- everything except an LL. B. degree which he had obtained from across the hills, at Cornell University...
Grover Cleveland was leaving office never to return when Mr. Cooke-now married to a Buffalo girl, May Louise Perry-was admitted to the firm of which the President had once been a member a firm named, 1897, Bissell...
Carey & Cooke. Horizons broadened. Buffalo grew. The Marine Trust Co. became a mighty institution. The red-fronted bazaars of F. W. Woolworth began to make annual fortunes. Mr. Coote, in the fullness of years became chairman of the board of the former, a director of the latter. B. F. Keith's theatres prospered at the chief railroad junctions. Cornell University acquired international fame. Mr. Cooke is director of the former, trustee of the latter...