Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Worth Record was sold to William Randolph Hearst for $375,000. Fort Worth, Texas, is the smallest city in which Mr. Hearst publishes. ¶ John E. Cullen will command the recently acquired Baltimore division of Hearst's newspaper empire. William Roscoe Thayer, popular historian and biographer of John Hay, Roosevelt and Washington, will edit. Thayer, like his employer, is a Harvard man, and is generally considered to be the most "cultured" of all Hearst's men. ¶ Mr. Hearst took over the Baltimore American (morning) and the Baltimore News (evening) from Frank A. Munsey two weeks...
...Frederick A. Cook, "North Pole Discoverer": "At Fort Worth I was arrested with several of my associates for using the mails to defraud in the sale of oil stock. I furnished $25,000 bail and was released...
...playing schedule for the intercollegiate polo tournament at Fort Hamilton from May 3 to May 16 was given out yesterday by Major-General R. L. Bullard following a conference of the polo committee of the Second Corps Area of the United States Army...
GEORGIA: In celebration of the Annual Peach Blossom festival, 25,000 people attended a barbecue at Fort Valley. The equipment included three miles of tables, 700 gallons of Brunswick stew, 22,000 pounds of meat and 1,000 gallons of coffee...
...blinding sandstorm, Major Leo G. Heffernan made the fastest flight on record, when he achieved an average speed of 250 miles an hour, according to an announcement of the War Department dated March 24. Major Heffernan flew in a DH-4B plane from Columbus, N. M., to Fort Bliss, Texas, a distance of 75 miles, in eighteen minutes. During the flight, which was aided by a follow-ing wind, the plane was surrounded by clouds of dust, out of which it was unable to climb...