Word: generalized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Messmore Kendall, 67, wealthy Manhattan lawyer, real-estate tycoon, theatrical producer, president general of the stuffy Sons of the American Revolution, resigned his job as a Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. volunteer fireman, after 20 years in which he had attended only one fire, and that at his own house. Absentee fines cost him $150 to $200 a year, which were more useful to the fire department than his personal services. Said he: "When I was young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving...
...George Washington University enlisted Brigadier General Oliver Lyman Spaulding (retired) to give a course on U. S. military history...
Progress. To the chemical industry in general, to Du Pont de Nemours in particular, business gave top billing for the greatest technological progress (second were automakers and General Motors). Rated highest in the handling and treatment of labor were the auto industry and Ford, in putting their best foot forward to the public: automakers and General Motors...
...short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican general, is fatally gored in time to prevent a worse tragedy. A colorful, realistic, badly constructed tale, Mars in the House of Death will add more to Ingram's reputation for versatility than to literature...
...Final General Meeting...