Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Career: He attended Stewart's School, Charleston, the University of South Carolina (one year), Wofford College, Spartanburg, from which he was graduated, and Vanderbilt College which prepared him for the law (though he took no bar examinations). He served four years (1896-1900) in the State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent...
When Mr. Dana died last week librarians grieved, paid tribute. Since his Denver days he had gone to Springfield, Mass., for four years (1898-1902) and increased that library's circulation by 47%. Then he had entered the Newark Public Library of which he was still Librarian at the time of his death. The Newark shelves had 78,798 books when he arrived. Last year it had 391,843 volumes and a 5-to-1 turnover. During his 27 years, two outstanding Dana deeds were the installation of the first U. S. Business Man's Library...
Chaplin. A German film company made a full-length feature film called Adventures by skilfully joining three famed Chaplin comedies, In a Pawn Shop, The Immigrant and Easy Street. For four weeks the silly, $100-a-week Chaplin, 12 to 14 years younger than the present grey-haired Millionaire Chaplin, played to full houses in the Alhambra, biggest cinema house in Berlin...
...Louis Nationals in a game with the Philadelphia Nationals made 10 runs in the first inning, 10 more in the fifth, 25 in the game. Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Pittsburgh club says: "I used to figure on allowing two runs and winning. Now I figure on allowing four and winning...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and become its president. Soon earnings began a steady climb. The 1927 net had been about $3,000,000. The 1928 income (with eight months of Trumbull) was $4,642,000. The first six months of 1929 showed net profit of $6,140,435, almost four times the net for the first half of 1928. Able President McCleary is planning to spend $10,000,000 in plant improvements, has on hand unfilled orders for 356,845 tons of steel...