Word: coe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROAD TO HEAVEN-Thomas Beer -Knopf ($2.50). If you know where Heaven is, the hardships by the way are endurable. Lamon Coe knew that Heaven was his father's farm in Zerbetta, Ohio, and therefore tolerated an exile cluttered with boxing in Los Angeles, acting in cinema, selling sporting goods in Boston, and finally life in the big city with his refined Cousin Abner. New York's smells, noises, intellectuals, palled on Lamon until he discovered Frankie de Lima (she had adopted the name of her Ohio home-town). Lamon basked in the glow of her vivacity, until...
Famed Notre Dame produced a green but agile team and defeated Coe 28-7 as scouts from later season enemies (Army, Navy, Indiana, Minnesota, Detroit) watched narrowly, scribbled notes...
...await, with an interest more vicarious than immediate, the results of an expensive experiment reported last week at the farms of Donald Woodward, gentleman farmer of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr. Woodward had his fields plowed by a share charged with 103,000 volts of electricity. Inventor Hamilton L. Coe of Pittsburgh had told Mr. Woodward that the current would electrocute weeds, grubs, soil bacteria. Crops, he said, would spring from the volt-purged ground in record time and abundance...
...York University Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary of State William Lyon Phelps, Yale Professor Litt. D. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist D. Sc. Owen D. Young, lawyer, industrialist D. Commercial Sc. Joseph Deems Taylor, composer D. Music Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...burly lawyer-Colonel Robert Wright Stewart, chairman of the board of directors. He did not rise from the bottom. He broke in at the middle and puffed out the chest of the Indiana oilcan. Babbitts could not understand how he did it. He had played football at Coe College (Iowa), plunged into the law at Yale, cavorted with Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, dabbled in politics in South Dakota. But he was and is a shrewd lawyer. The Standard Oil wanted him. Soon the general counsel was made chairman of the board (1918).* He summoned lethargic directors to thrice...