Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. Hiram Johnson is in the Senate to represent California, but his eyes squinted with emotion, his white crest shook with vehemence, as he asked last week for an investigation of bituminous coal mining in Pennsylvania (see col...
...Col. Robert W. Stewart, brisk, bulky board chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, know where Continental was buying $1.50 oil? He did. He also knew that the oil would cost him $1.75 from the same source, for reasons beyond his control. Since oil was commanding $2 per barrel elsewhere at the moment, he felt he was serving his Indiana Standard stockholders well in helping to guarantee to Sinclair, as cunningly inevitable middleman, a profit which Indiana Standard could equal in turn. "It was a good buy," he said...
...this Col. Stewart explained last week to Inquisitor Walsh. Col. Stewart was patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...
Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...
...curriculum planned to prepare women to meet the problems of the modern world." Other aims: emphasis on the individual, learning through living, community life, breaking down barriers between teacher and student, a selfsupporting college. Robert Devore Leigh, professor of government at Williams, will be president. Trustee James Colby Col- gate has given a building site at the foot of the Taconic range near the village of Old Bennington, Vermont. Proposed endowment: $1,000,000. Cash in hand...