Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the battle, the potent U. S. S. Olympia shared with Admiral Dewey an hour of fame. In 1921 antique U. S, S. Olympia bore the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to Washington. Today obsolete U. S. S. Olympia rusts away in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Navy Department recently proposed to convert her into a few thousand dollars worth of scrap iron...
Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...
Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among San Francisco journalists...
People gradually came to believe there was basis for the Bulletin's graft charges. Finally evidence was placed before a Grand Jury. A lawyer named Hiram Warren Johnson took up the prosecution and by it came to fame. Bribery was proved, the courts acted, San Francisco's graft days were over...
...seizures were different from prior ones only in that Boston newspapers were specially informed. They scare-headed their reports and other coastal papers imitated them. Credit for the Federal action was claimed by Dr. Allan Winter Rowe of Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and by Importer Ambruster of ergot fame...