Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company considered Mr. Coolidge a doubtful...
...also extend to literature. Last week it was reported that Mr. Smith will write a series of personal and political reminiscences for the Saturday Evening Post. † New York Life had the late Myron Timothy Herrick, Ambassador to France, on its board. It was to succeed Mr. Herrick that Citizen Coolidge was elected...
...heavily in General Motors stock. Inasmuch as the General Motors stock increased in value somewhat in proportion to the stories concerning Ford difficulties with its new models, so Mr. Ford made on General Motors what he lost on his reorganization program. "Shrewd!" said many a Ford-worshipping U. S. citizen, "Henry can't be beat." But closest Ford observers received this tale as only the last and best Ford joke...
Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...
Lahm Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling...