Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...
Chairman of the Board to be elected by the Governors for a term of several years, indefinitely renewable. Expectations at Baden-Baden were that a U. S. citizen would be elected Chairman, might find the office a lifetime...
Stumpers. There was no agreement last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving...
...Caldbeck churchyard the sentimental sportsmen, primed for song, were shocked to find that persons unknown had covered the historic tombstone of John Peel with sheet iron, obliterating his name, and the fox, hounds and horn graven thereon...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...