Word: ga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long climb. Mrs. Roosevelt said that her chief worry was that, too busy to exercise, he would get fat and give the legs that much more to carry. As soon as his very close victory (25,000 plurality) was assured, he set out for his retreat at Warm Springs, Ga., to exercise as much as possible before inauguration...
...Atlanta, Ga., Sergius P. Grace heard of the Tate report. A vice president and department head of Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., the research bureau of the Bell Telephone system and the Western Electric Co., Mr. Grace was at Atlanta for the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Chemicals. For more than $4,000,000 the Davison Chemical Co. has bought control of phosphate and fertilizer plants at Charleston, S. C.; Cordele, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; New Albany, Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga...
...machine for picking the seeds out of cotton, first invented by Eli Whitney at Savannah, Ga., in 1793, said to have been the largest single factor in the South's success...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...