Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola...
...Colonel Daniel Hernandez, Guatemalan Minister of Promotion, visited the scene of the eruption at once, approached as close as possible to the lava stream and reported blackened corpses, like raisins on a pudding, carried along on its surface. Came an official bulletin...
...struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central; behind the second sits energetic Daniel Willard of the B. & O.; behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when...
Special students who have received scholarships are Ernest Akam 2. S.A., Daniel Boyd Cathcart 2 S.A., and Artbur Albert Thompson...
Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...