Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene V. Debs, according to his own account, is " a citizen of the world," because he is deprived of United States citizenship by being a paroled convict from the penitentiary at Atlanta. That did not prevent Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, from booming Debs for the Presidency of the United States...
...Thus did Daniel Hoan, one-time chef, self-made university graduate, self-made lawyer, self-made politician, open a boom for Debs. Milwaukee is a Socialist city, but Hoan by his own abilities has been in office (as city attorney) even when the Socialist ticket as a whole was defeated. In 1916 he became mayor of Milwaukee and carried the city for the Socialists with the slogan: "Public Ownership of Public Utilities...
...most ambitious project is that of the Scientific American, which recently offered $2,500 each to the first persons to produce an authentic psychic photograph and other psychic manifestations of physical character, under prescribed conditions, to the satisfaction of a committee consisting of Prof. William McDougall (psychologist), Dr. Daniel F. Comstock (physicist), Dr. Walter Franklin Prince and Hereward Carrington (psychic investigators), Harry Houdini (magician...
...France, Professors Henri Bergson, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion. In Germany, Z�llner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have enjoyed the membership?although few of these men have been more than merely open-minded on the subject?of the late Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering (astronomers), Henry P. Bowditch, Charles S. Minot, S. Weir Mitchell (physicians), William James, G. Stanley Hall, James Hervey Hyslop (psychologists and philosophers). Dr. Hyslop (died 1920) was the only one of these who could be said to be definitely...
According to the proposed plan there would be three chief systems in the East under the consolidation, each built around one of the existing lines, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio. A. H. Smith, Samuel Rea, Daniel Willard, presidents of these respective roads, expressed their substantial approval of the Commission's plans with modifications. Opposition came chiefly from the smaller roads: the Philadelphia and Reading, Central of New Jersey, Delaware and Hudson...