Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of a U. S. President, from President Washington to President Arthur.† This was no imitation of custom long obsolete in the U. S. but yet current in Great Britain, of naming locomotives. Nor was the festive painting a symptom of giddiness on the part of President Daniel Willard. Names and paints were part of a carefully considered policy to give individuality and therefore distinction to B. & 0. trains...
...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
...coast of Chile, one Alexander Selkirk was abandoned by his shipmates of the sailing ship Cinque Ports after quarreling with the captain, Thomas Stradling. Four years and four months later he was rescued, told his tale in London, and was fictionized for posterity as "Robinson Crusoe"* by Daniel Defoe. Last week Dictator Premier Carlos Ibanez of Chile announced that the Chilean "Reds" recently arrested by his agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock and building material, guarded by Chilean...
...Chase; Henry Chauncoy; J. P. Crosby; Langdon Dearborn; A. O. Fordyce; E. B. Jackson; V. O. Jones; W. B. Jones; Joseph Morrill Jr; William Mulford; P. H. Nitxe; Edward Page Jr.; W. C. Peet Jr.; J. L. Pool; C. A. Pratt Jr.; W. G. Saltonstall; R. W. Sawyer; Daniel Simonds 2nd; R. W. Turner; John Watts; W. H. White
...Bruen '28, A. J. Cassat '27, C. D. Coady '27, G. Crawford '29, L. F. Daley '27, E. F. Gamache '27, J. R. Harrison '27, James Jackson Jr. '28, W. B. Jones '28, A. H. Miller '27, A. H. O'Neil '28, C. A. Pratt '28, and Daniel Simonds...