Word: group
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be designed around a monumental group of Government buildings...
...group of natives from Niagara Falls, N. Y., approached Mr. Adams about organizing a power company. Three such projects had already failed; $800,000 had been thrown away. Mr. Adams said that if he could have a six-month option, he would see what could be done. He consulted mechanical engineers, notably Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia. He cabled to Inventor Edison, who was having a triumph in Paris: "Has power transmission reached such development that in your judgment scheme practicable...
...police) court. The magistrates decided that New York State laws permit a doctor to give birth control instruction when the doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer. But he demoted the policewoman who had led the raid against the birth-controllers...
...some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat," and anyway his Post was not for sale...
...been written about Publisher Macfadden, he has seldom been credited for his undeniable talent for discovering and reaching new publishing markets. There were physical culturists before him, but not many physical culturists who succeeded in getting the man on the street to read about physical culture. In his group of confessional periodicals, typified by True Stories, he has reached down into an obscure stratum of society and found more than two million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found...