Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said a noted Rabbi: "The six years following the War have not been six years of peace, but six years of a truce, during which the nations of the earth have been building new war machines." The Rabbi believed the U. S. had "grievously erred" in not lending support to "the one effort to build a machine of peace...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
Immediately upon the death of Mr. Caruso, it was the intention of his widow to build a chapel worthy of this great artist and man in which his body might rest for all time. All arrangements were made, and it was calculated that three months would elapse before the structure would finally be completed. Meantime, Mrs. Caruso preferred that her late husband's body rest somewhere else than in an exposed grave, and she made arrangements with friends of the family to keep it in a private chapel until the new one should be finished...
...Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous, to Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil merchants. Last week, Judge Paul J. McCormick mounted his U. S. District Court bench in the Federal Building at Los Angeles, and listened to the beginnings of US. v. the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. (dominated by Mr. Doheny). There came before him: Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, for the plaintiff, who said he would show that the leases constituted a scheme between Messrs. Fall and Doheny, furtively and illegally...
...next few days on Stafford, Akers, and Zarakov to direct his three teams. Stafford, who excells as a ground gainer, will be used in place of Cheek when the so-called fourman backfield is desired. Akers, on the other hand, much resembles Spalding, as he has a light build and is a brainy signal caller...