Word: daniels
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Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper, 32-degree Mason, became a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine when its imperial potentate, the potentate of Almas Temple (Washington), one deputy imperial Potentate and one plain Shriner marched into his office, conducted a private initiation, marched out again...
Died. Henry Augustus Lukeman, 64, sculptor of outdoor memorial statuary (President McKinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio; Columbus for Manhattan; Daniel Boone for Paris, Ky.; Jefferson Davis for Washington and Lexington, Ky.); of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1925, after the ousting of Gutzon Borglum, Virginia-born Sculptor Lukeman was called in to complete the Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain, Ga., produced an equestrian group which was unveiled in 1928. Work has since been suspended for lack of funds...
...will find that it was urged by Lord Bacon, by Milton, by Shakespeare in England; by Socrates, by Plato, by Diogenes and the other wisest of the philosophers of ancient Greece; by Pope Pius XI in the Vatican; by the world's greatest inventor, Marconi, in Italy; Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt in the United States, as well as by nearly all of the thousands of great men whose names are mentioned in history, and the only great man who ever came forth to dispute these things from...
When Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, Delaware Republican, stood up in the Senate last week and challenged "anybody" to say a good word for NRA, not a single Senator on either side of the aisle went to that organization's defense. Meanwhile courts in Missouri, New York and Wisconsin continued to pull more legal feathers from the Blue Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA...
...Last week Columbia Broadcasting announced that there were nearly 2,500,000 more radio sets in the U. S. than anyone suspected, bringing total radio homes to 21,456,000. The CBS cstimate was derived from a Daniel Starch survey of 125,000 homes. Previous figures were based on the 1930 census which was taken at time when there was wild talk of a radio-set tax, particularly in the South where radio-ownership is supposed to have been been generally concealed...