Word: h
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thad H. Brown of Ohio is the man who nearly two years ago received a letter, first public intimation, from the then Secretary of Commerce that he would run for President. Col. Brown managed the Commerce Secretary's campaign in Ohio. Last week a piece of paper fluttered down into the Senate, seeming to say "Eureka." President Hoover had at last found a Federal post appropriate for his friend, had nominated him to be Chief Counsel for the Federal Power Commission...
...James H. King, Canada's Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island...
...news. And Westerners certainly deserve fresh financial news. So with these things considered, we thought it would be best to inaugurate a separate Pacific Coast edition." Western brokers viewed the plan with approval. Well known to them is the man selected to be the Journal's editor-H. C. Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth of the establishment last year of Dow, Jones's coast-to-coast direct wire, serving...
...H. G. Wells used a phrase like this: 'Life will use me for its purpose.' That appears to me exactly like a man jumping from the top of Westminster Cathedral and saying, The force of gravity will...
Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...