Word: en
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semiprivate corporation which will be financed by an $80,000,000 loan. Part of this issue would be floated in Manhattan by Blair & Co., and last week the project was reported to be waxing strongly, as President Albert Arthur Tilney of the Bankers' Trust Co. was rumored en route to Warsaw...
...last of the Whiting concert will be given at 8.15 o'clock's this evening in Paine Hall. This is the fifth such program of the year, and the subject is "En positions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music...
...usually happens, thoughtful persons present held their tongues-for a while. But soon (next day) everyone was joining in. The Representative train, en route to supply moneys for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, but stalled by a proposed amendment to prohibit poisonous denaturants in industrial alcohol, became clamorous. The amendment had been offered by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland, who cited the facts that 10% of all industrial alcohol in the U. S. has annually been leaking into beverage channels under Prohibition; that there were 11,700 deaths in 1926 from poisonous alcohol...
...front of aviation news last week when Ruth Rowland Nichols, Wellesley graduate, flew the first non-stop flight from New York to Miami. The direct route took the plane often out of sight of land; flying 12 hours from field to field. Miss Nichols has made many flights; en route to Miami she piloted the plane for a five hour stretch. With her were Harry Rogers, President of the Rogers Air Line of Miami ; and Major M. K. Lee, business and sportsman. Said Miss Nichols: "Major Lee demonstrated his faith in my flying ability by falling asleep and remaining that...
...Suavity is a rarity in the equipment of U. S. playwrights. Suavity was, among other things, badly needed in this selection. It was needed to tell neatly the story of a man who loved numerous women; married two of them; survived to see them decide to live with him en trois. At the end they had retreated to other, less complicated amorous arrangements, and he was looking up telephone numbers in the faithful old notebook which had been waiting quietly the entangled while. All this is clumsy; seldom witty; always eminently well played by Lynne Overman...