Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FRANCIS M. STIFLER Editor "The Main Liner" Ardmore, Pa. Grand Junction...
...past many years there has been much talk of changing the name of our city. It seems that the Postoffice Department gave our first settlers a choice of two names; Ute and Grand Junction, there being no alternative. Grand Junction was naturally selected as the better...
...rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca Ratimer Felton of Georgia, was actually Senator, for one day in 1922, by a southern gentleman-governor's gesture.* But women secretaries have been barred even more rigorously than senators-suspect...
...TRUBEE DAVISON, Assistant Secretary of War: "He was a grand person, and I know a very particular loss...
From the Bowman flair for the spectacular comes many a story. Example: Two years ago a delegation of foreign hotel men visited the Commodore. Why not, thought Mr. Bowman, show them a typical U. S. spectacle? So he put up a tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...