Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...termed, out of regard for the approaching holidays, the Christmas number, and paradoxically contains the best editorials and book reviews that have appeared in the Advocate for some time. There is, however, an anecdotal short story by J. N. Leonard entitled "How Christmas Cheer Came to the Bridge Gang' (in the form of five cases of rum), and a deeply religious poem by Whitney Cromwell, called "Christmas...
...flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services" were held in an undertaker's small chapel. No priest officiated, so one Louis Altiere, lieutenant of O'Bannion, functioned as master of ceremonies. To a stringed...
...week elected a new president, Charles M. Kittle, to succeed Julius Rosenwald. Because of the large trading in Sears, Roebuck shares on the New York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...
...used to devise and launch the homeric spectacles at the Hippodrome, has directed his first picture. The expansiveness of the movies seems to agree with him. In the generally entertaining document he starts with the purchase of Manhattan Island for $24. Later events develop into a fairly normal gang picture with Spike reforming and marrying the little angel of the slums...
...were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here. And Captain Herbert Hartley, master of the Leviathan, ordered three long blasts on the potent steam whistle as the yacht started up the harbor...