Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore, a Brown Derby campaigner announced by State headquarters was the late President Cleveland's son, Richard F. Cleveland, able young lawyer...
...Abraham & Straus and John Wanamaker. He played the clarinet in the Police Reserves Band of New York City. For a special concert at Fort Hamilton the bandsmen were ordered to wear what decorations they possessed; Brigadier General Gough's ribbons of rank awed his companions; he was the fêted hero of the musicians, who had hitherto known nothing of his history. Reserved, unwilling to rely on his military connections to further his welfare, he later became saxophonist-director of a dance orchestra at the Club Polle, Manhattan. At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning...
Ivan Bratt will escape being "out of a job" during the liquor investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits that he now needs, to put his children through college. A realist to the last, he will earn with S. K. F. what he has refused to earn from the Bratt Monopoly. Indeed he drew up the monopoly articles of incorporation with such cunning that nobody can profiteer in selling...
...from the Civil War until 1910 was Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history of the Democratic party, f He can applaud as well as he can slam and bang. And he can sympathize because once he knew the life of active politics himself. In 1922 all was arranged for him to have the Senate seat which Maryland's bumbling Bruce now occupies. Pundit Kent turned it down...
...plane went up, R. F. Cullman piloting. It roared, it swooped. It turned loops, it careened. It slipped sideways, it banked, it circled. Then it returned to steady earth. The 10-year-old boy was unbound and lifted out, speechless and faint...