Word: englewood
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...shady Englewood, N. J. one mid-day last week drove nine jovial members of the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to have lunch with air-minded Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. The night before, after a radio speech in behalf of a Jewish charity drive, he complained of being tired, but said he would be in shape for the luncheon. When the guests rolled up before the comfortable Morrow home, not many miles from where another great New Jersey citizen was dying, they were met with shocking news; when the Senator had not awakened by 11:30 that morning...
...City of New York, he was graduated at 18. Then, "when I got to be 20, and had marriage in view, a desire to write serious things overwhelmed me." His first best-seller was The Jungle (1906), whose profits ($30,000) he sank in Socialist Helicon Home Colony at Englewood, N. J. Now he lives in Pasadena, Calif., with his second wife (he was divorced from the first). They have made "some rather startling experiments" in mental telepathy. Sinclair likes to play tennis, requires his secretary to be able to play a "rattling good game." His own game has been...
Married. Byrnece Macfadden, 19, of Englewood. X. J., daughter of Publisher Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture Magazine, True Story, New York Evening Graphic); and one Louis Ignatius Muckerman of St. Louis...
...farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right-of-way, cheerfully worked without salary. In 1924 the road...
...solid silver they would pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor of First National Bank said his institution would guarantee that Chicago City Bank's depositors would be paid. Impatiently he added: ''They need a bank. If the people of that community want to wreck their own bank, they can go ahead...