Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Akerson told them to return next day. They did, to find no appointment with the President ready for them. The third day was like the second, the fourth like the third. Plainly President Hoover would not see them. In high dudgeon they left Washington. Mayor de Golier exclaimed: "I am deeply disappointed. . . . Discrimination...
...undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more it will have a $2,000,000 securities company, with a name that could only be more imposing if written in the German fashion: First-seattledexterhortonsecuritiescompany. But Seattle is a city two and one-fourth times as large as Des Moines, and its achievement is of a different calibre...
Californians all were the three youngest members of the U. S. team, and California-born was the fourth member, their coach and leader, donor of the Wightman cup, patriarch of U. S. tennis for women. As Helen Hotchkiss she first won the U. S. championship in 1909 before Betty Nuthall and Helen Jacobs were born and when Helen Wills was a tot. She kept the title until 1912 and then, though "they never come back," rewon it in 1919. Her score of other national titles were amassed in doubles courts and indoors. She gave the Wightman cup six years...
...many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, all the international Masters...
...Fourth: Dr. Wylie and Dr. Bowlby did rot call, the following day, to see the President, but went to the White House to see the President's Secretary, Mr. Akerson, to thank him for having arranged the meeting with the President...