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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired men were helped from the plane. One was Captain C. B. D. Collyer, onetime air mail flyer, veteran of many a notable flight, who had unassisted and sleepless stuck to the stick all the way from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The other was Harry Tucker of Los Angeles, well-known sportsman, owner of the plane...
...happily did Anaconda appear to be sitting on the top of the copper heap that few observers were conscious, last week, of Anaconda's troubles. But Chairman of the Board John D. Ryan and President Cornelius F. Kelly knew that, prosperity or no prosperity, two thorns remained in the side of Anaconda to irritate, exasperate. One thorn was George Campbell Carson. The other was William A. Clark...
...battle for the governorship was the chief issue, last week, between the two factions. Clark is supporting Republican Wellington D. Rankin. Anaconda aids the campaign for re-election of Governor John E. Erickson, Democrat. Clark's Free Press exulted, last week, when Candidate Rankin spurned the "Aid of a Kept Press as Kiss of Death." Anaconda's Standard headlined: MUNCHAUSEN A PILLAR OF TRUTH COMPARED TO CLARK. Listed in the story were 6 "major, frenzied, malicious Clark lies." The sixth was "the statement made daily by the Clark newspaper that it is devoted solely to the interests...
...still would be a combination of any two of them. But under the White Act, U. S. cable and radio companies may not merge. Surprising, piquant, therefore, was the admission of President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union last week, that he had conferred with Chairman of the Board Owen D. Young of Radio Corp., the subject being a possible, desirable merger...
Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners...