Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tracy Drake, boniface of the smart Drake and Blackstone Hotels, Chicago, protested, last week, against a new action of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to cut commissions on income from public booth phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...
...LIFE OF SIR MARTIN FROBISHER-William McFee-Harper ($4). Frobisher was an Elizabethan seadog who did not sell himself to history as thoroughly as did Drake. Conscientious biography...
...long awaited sea-biography by by America's greatest writer of sailors and ships. This is the first complete biography of the navigating genius of the Elizabethan navy, whose exciting career included soldiering, exploring, privateering and piracy before he fought his way up to vice-admiralty under Sir Francis Drake...
...Angeles, where an aeronautical exposition was in full blast, the first to arrive in the class A event was Earl Rowland of Wichita, Kans., in a Cessna monoplane. Scarcely had the dust settled from his plane when Robert Drake of Pittsburgh landed to take second place. Soon thousands of eyes .searched the horizon for Class B and C fliers...
...Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa...