Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers...
...custom of the Ku Klux Klan in recent years to make an annual splurge in Washington, D. C., so that mere laymen can gaze on the marching "brothers." This festival on Pennsylvania Avenue has come to be a barometer by which the relative annual potency of the K. K. K. may be judged. In the eyes of "Mr. Average Citizen," who thinks of crowds in terms of the several 100,000 Manhattanites who welcomed Gertrude Ederle and who fought to see the corpse of Rudolph Valentino, the K. K. K. performances of the last two years in Washington have been...
...that I called upon General Silvestre of the Spanish Army at Mellila in the interest of my tribe, the Beni Uriaghel, who wanted 100,000 pesetas ($15,000) to keep the peace that year with the Spanish. This was the custom of the strong Moroccan tribes at that time. The Spaniards have many times bought peace...
...Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France, M. Poincaré. Moreover, added Mr. Whitehouse, Foreign Minister Briand had already put off his departure for the League session at Geneva for a day in expectation of a call from Mr. Mellon...
Interpreneur Couzens has learned that not enough U. S. householders are yet willing to pay cash for even a standardized iceless refrigerator. They are habituated to the trade custom of instalment payments. So, last week, Mr. Couzens in disgust dissolved his company...