Word: charlestoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charleston,* S. C., last week the shippers, innkeepers and other public men prepared for the convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, which will meet there under the chairmanship of President James Augustine Farrell of the U. S. Steel Corporation April 28-30. The businessmen of Charleston will display their harbor and shipping facilities, their stores and shops and factories. They realize that this visitation will mean much to Charleston as an exporting city. In 1901-02 they tried to stimulate foreign trade through the port by holding the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition. That was a financial...
...Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman...
Sirs : I believe in enthusiasm. For a year I have been broadcasting the superiorities of three possessions?my Gardner Eight-in-line car, my daughter's Charleston and my weekly copy of TIME...
...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...
...witnessed the ungraceful Charleston, can fail to agree that modern dancing has its faults. A man of less keen perception than Henry Ford, realizes its shortcomings. But no one, except Mr. Ford, is quite so absurd as to suggest a return to the awkward clownish movements of a few years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford...