Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chief framer of these pledges was Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, ever a militant Dry, who became the association's president two years ago following the death of its leader and founder, Dr. Francis E. Clark. Last week, as everyone expected, President Poling was reelected...
Editor Wood, enthralled, got Publisher McCormick to agree. Failing the services of Pilot Eielson, Cramer suggested tall, bald Pilot Robert H. Cast, 33, whom Mr. McCormick soon commandeered from his friend John Daniel Hertz, onetime Yellow Cab tycoon...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...
...social welfare Daniel Guggenheim turned in 1919, when he was 63. To the welfare of aviation he turned two Junes before Lindbergh flew to Paris. His aim was to make aviation a public utility. He gave New York University $500,000 for a School of Aeronautics. Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities...
...have 'been, because Invershin won the same race last year, purred as he was given the winner's glinting gold cup: "I am more than delighted for the horse rather than myself. He's such a gallant fellow and has such a beautiful temperament. . . ." Mrs. John Daniel Hertz, owner of Reigh Count, wife of Chicago's onetime Yellow Taximan, said: "Reigh Count ran a great race. He was beaten by a better horse. But oh, it has been well worth while bringing him to England...