Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circle back to his beginnings. From Urbana where he was born (one of the numerous Urbanas, this one happening to be in Ohio) he went to Toledo and became a newspaper reporter. From there he went to Chicago, still at the same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married? and from there returned to Toledo. There he was elected Mayor on an Independent ticket and held that office for eight years?through a maelstrom of strikes and political campaign. At the end he retired voluntarily...
Christian Science. The religion of Mary Baker Eddy has spread to such distant points as Tientsin, Riga, Bulawayo. At the annual meeting of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the clerk's report showed a gain of 79 societies, and 16 churches. There are now 2,061 branches of the " mother church." Christian Scientists publish no total membership, but it is known that their rate of gain is not as rapid as it was ten years...
...significance of all which industry to the average reader is? what? This, briefly: Good reading never was cheaper, except for those who besiege the weary book clerk with cries of " I want a new book? is this 'un really...
Major Thomas Duncan of the Army Air Service and Irving H. Krupp, civilian clerk, were killed at Boiling Field, Washington, in a DH-4-B airplane which went into a spin at 200 feet in the air, crashed and burst into flames. The machine had taken off correctly into the teeth of the wind, the motor did not cut-out or choke, flying controls responded perfectly. The investigating board is baffled. In spite of immense progress in aerodynamics, many accidents still remain a complete mystery...
...Moscow were greatly incensed over the affair. They have accused all their numerous enemies of complicity in the shooting. It is perhaps unfortunate that the murder took place at a time when Britain had sent a stiff note to Russia and shortly after the shooting of Slogett, a clerk in the British Commercial Mission in Moscow, by the Soviet police. The event has complicated and enhanced the political importance of an otherwise regrettable but insignificant occurrence. Despite rumors of war and the bursts of indignation from Soviet Russia and the Communists of other countries, it cannot be denied that...