Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in May 1869, on a bare shoulder of Utah the late great Leland Stanford swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading...
...Knox and Holmes were common. Only Franklin has survived. It survived not so much be cause of the winterproof feature as because of its quality. One of Franklin's best markets has long been among such mechanically inept persons as doctors, authors, professors who want big car com fort with small car economy. Founder Franklin prized his reputation for fine materials and scrupulous workmanship. Franklin, always a high-priced car, sells today from...
Seldom do the guns of U. S. forts, north or south, fire salutes to a Negro. Yet last week the guns of Fort Jay, Governor's Island banged out 21 times for a Negro sailing up New York Harbor. The Negro was His Excellency Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in the U. S. to talk business with President Roosevelt...
...been alive last week he would have realized that the fame of his son, Two Guns White Calf, was even greater. Two Guns was but a papoose when his father was scalping his neighbors. Because of his father's friendship with the Government, Two Guns was educated at Fort Shaw Indian School, learned perfect English. Later he found it paid better to pretend ignorance of the language and go around with an interpreter. Two Guns made friends with James Jerome Hill's son Louis, now director of Great Northern. The grateful Great Northern hired Two Guns, along with...
Married. David Binney Putnam, 20, son of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, explorer-author (David Goes Voyaging, David Goes to Greenland, David Goes to Baffin Land, David Sails the Viking Trail); and Xilla Shiles of La Fayette, Ga.; in Fort Pierce...