Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper-buying activities of International Paper & Power Co. last spring, the fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them...
From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen...
...Rome, Ga., from Rome, Italy, arrived last week a bronze she-wolf, suckling two bronze infants. A gift from Italy's Benito Mussolini, it was a reproduction of the ancient Romulus & Remus group, a reminder to Georgian Romans of their etymological ancestry...
...Rome, Ga., is a textile mill. Its cornerstone, another Mussolini gift, was sent last year from the Coliseum's crumbling walls. The American Chatillon Rayon Co. was started on Italian capital. Therein lay the cause for the Mussolini corner stone, the Mussolini she-wolf, which will be formally presented by an Italian mill executive. In the U. S. there are 13 other Romes. No Italian mills have they, hence no she-wolves...
...Macon, Ga., Phil Towns, 104, was arrested for Prohibition-law violation. Explained he: "I'm a deacon of the church, and just use it to keep in condition-as I have for 90 years...