Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President of the Associated Press Frank Brett Noyes (Republican), Steelman Charles Michael Schwab (Republican), Lawyer John William Davis (Democrat...
...physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...contest will be officially opened by either Frank Crumit or Helen Kane, star of "Good Boy", both of whom are in town. Whoever of these two acts in the capacity of official starter will stand in the middle of Holyoke Street and wave a crimson and white Harvard banner at the sign of which the two men will dash to their respective windows and begin their musical listening duel to see who is the first to go lunatic...
...Reynoldsville, Pa., one Frank Chiffen, silk-mill fireman, shut up his wife in his house and nailed boards over all but one of the windows and doors. At the remaining door he chained three dogs. Whenever he heard the dogs bark he ran home from the mill to investigate. Failing to catch anyone with his wife, he sharpened his axe, ran to the house, decapitated his wife, shot himself through the head...
Lahm Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling...