Word: holders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-shouldered man was William Morgan Butler, outgoing chairman of the National Republican Committee. After leaving the dais at Kansas City, he had fulfilled his duty by calling on the holder of "the most important position in the world."-In the wet woods, on an island, in a cabin, beside a fire, they had discussed politics scarcely at all, Mr. Butler said. They had talked about fishing. They had gone fishing. Mr. Butler had caught some fish. He would not tell whether President Coolidge had caught any. He was going to Boston. The rain continued...
...Order of the Golden Militia (also called the Golden Spur) limited to a world membership of 100 knights. In the U. S. no holder; in Great Britain the Marquess of Bute, lord of more than 117,000 acres...
Miss Earhart is an experienced pilot, licensed in May, 1923, a former holder of the altitude record for women fliers, but Miss Boll was led to take up trans-atlantic flying last summer by the ambition to show New Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth...
Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...York meet. His opponents in the dash at the Bronx ball park will be men of high calibre. Henry Russell, former Cornell track captain and former intercollegiate champion at 100 and 200 yards, and Jackson Scholz of the New York A. C., Olympic 200-metre title-holder, are the leading lights of the sprinting world who may be expected to face Miller at the start Saturday...