Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...col. 1 of TIME, Oct. 24 occurs the positive statement that the cathedral of St. John the Divine is not the third largest in th world. On p. 410, col. 1, of the Scientific American for Nov. 1927 occurs the positive statement that it is. Which is the accurate statement...
...small man and a quiet man, but Washington, D. C., always takes notice when Newton D. Baker comes to town. Last week Mr. Baker was there for three days, to attend sessions of the National Crime Commission. (See CRIME col. 1). He presided over that section of the commission which studies social, educational and industrial conditions to discover crime preventives. Also he functioned, as no one else can, as toastmaster at the commission's banquet...
General Arnulfo Gomez, onetime presidential candidate, fell into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
...Herald Tribune had reported the death of a Mrs. Alice Weed, widow of Beverly Weed who (no relative of Col. Harry D. Weed) was falsely named as the inventor of Weed chains...