Word: givens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard system. Two days later the Brothers Van Sweringen gathered in a desirable pawn themselves, the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The I. C. C. authorized the Nickel Plate to issue $20,000,000 in promissory notes and to buy control...
...Cooke went among the Buffalonians and told them the University ought to be endowed. Some 24,000 citizens gave $5,177,000. This year Mr. Cooke went forth again and when his drive ended last week, some 30,000 contributors had given, despite a crushing stockmarket. more than...
Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest...
...awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies...
...Macfadden is concerned he agrees with me that the Graphic must and will be made into a high class newspaper. . . . The tone . . . will unquestionably have to be raised. I have found the people of New York City have a lot more intelligence than they are given credit for. . . . What I want to do is to cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing is a taste for decency. The canons of journalism...