Word: dunlap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Edward Dunlap of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been nominated for President, Bernard Barnes of New Hartford, Conn., and Thomas Frothingham Mason of Brooklyn, N. Y., have been nominated for Vice-President. The elections will be held tomorrow and not on Saturday as previously announced...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...
...debate in Paine Hall, which will be open free to all members of the University. Professor, A. N. Holcombe '06, will preside. The judges will be Professor R. M. Bowman of the Boston University Law School, the Rev. R. A. Dunlap, Pastor of the Harvard Church. Brookline, and Professor G. N. Sneath of the English Department of Boston University...
Thirty miles away, a group of Americans saw the vast columns of fire and smoke ascending to the heavens. In fast automobiles they dashed to the scene. One Dunlap, superintendent of the area, realized that nothing could be done except to localize the conflagration. The usual method of putting out a blazing oil gusher by steam pressure could not be used, because the nearest boilers were several miles away. Eventually, the authorities at Bucharest, the capital, were induced to send a battery of artillery to bombard the well, with the object of closing it up. Rumanian gunners bombarded...
...this point, several Rumanians and Germans offered to sell for $3,500 to Superintendent Dunlap a sure scheme to extinguish the fire. Their proposal was looked into, rejected. The next scheme tried was digging a tunnel up to the wall with the idea of dynamiting it. The project was stopped by irate Rumani who demanded huge payments for permission to use their property as a right...