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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirds vote for nomination?" conjectured correspondents. W. W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah for Un-da-wood !" appeared at a "Southern Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston...
...lies to the northeast of Osaka on the main island of Hondo. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was felt some 80 miles from Osaka, which is situate on the south shore. Seismographs recorded horizontal vibrations measuring nearly three inches and lasting several minutes. Experts declared the shock the greatest for the district in 30 years. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross, cabled: "Our deepest sympathy for sufferers in the disaster...
...greatest super-power projects in the country is that undertaken by the Electric Bond & Share Co., now approaching fruition. The properties being assembled for this giant merger include parts of the Electric Power & Light Co., American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Southeastern Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, Carolina Power & Light, Lehigh Power Securities, and Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern. All these are either controlled or managed by the Electric Bond & Share Co. or allied interests...
...bells of- Capri, his pianissimo tender as the mandolins of Sorrento and how the great assembly of his countrymen in the galleries, pit and loges of the old opera house rose shouting, with cries of "Ancora," "Bravo" and "Yeah." De Muro, they read, is known as the greatest tenor in Italy. He lives in Milan, where he sings at La Scala, owns a fine house, runs a cork factory-the biggest cork factory in Italy, for De Muro does not compromise. He was born in Sardinia, where his success with serenades was so embarrassing that his parents, people of quality...
...great majority of the students down here have already lost the art of relaxing; they can never forget themselves and their assumed dignity long enough to be natural with one another. Hence it is that in this one external characteristic, which in itself is of the greatest importance in judging any school or college, Harvard can no more to be compared with Williams than an elephant to a rose...