Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home town," Westerville, birth- place of the Anti-Saloon League, was visited promptly by reporters from Columbus, Ohio. They reported that recently for the first time in history the village council had had to appropriate ($500) for prohibition enforcement, that malt and hops were on sale, that the students of Otterbein College, Westerville's seat of learning, could tell of at least two Columbus bootleggers "with a rural trade" who visit Westerville regularly...
...stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with two of his sons, 19-year-old Réné and 13-year-old Michel, for a winter in the woods...
Entrance of the Morgan company into the utility field came in January 1929, with the formation of United Corporation, a company established by J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. and Bonbright & Co. and with executive offices at 23 Wall St. (Morgan home). By June 29, United Corp. had the following holdings in the following utilities...
Birthday. Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement...
...Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the north pole, is now in Antarctica preparing to fly to the south pole): "My most awful nightmare is that the world has suddenly turned star-shaped . . . and that now there are five poles to be discovered." She lives at Boston, her parents' home, or at Winchester, Va., the Byrd home, with their four children...