Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White trucks and buses; of an internal hemorrhage, after an automobile accident; at Cleveland. Driving to work in a Stutz, he carromed into another car, hurtled into a vacant lot, fractured his right hip and leg. Out of the relics of his father's White Sewing Machine Co. grew White Motor Co., first manufacturing steam cars. Since 1921 he had been the company's president. During the War he was one of a committee to supervise U. S. Army motor transport, was made Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur...
...Also a Harvard graduate, also a lawyer, also a President's son was the late great Robert Todd Lincoln who died last year. Modest, retiring, he gained fame through his deeds rather than his name. Longtime head of Pullman Co., he was also director of many a Chicago corporation. He was onetime Secretary of War, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain...
...Dorrance & Co. (Philadelphia), who issued The Economic Pinch (1923), by Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...solution is ingenious, will appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
...Reference to Briton Hadden, Founder & Editor of TIME, who died aged 31 (TIME, March 11). Shortly before his fatal illness, Editor Hadden had been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...