Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A few hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to...
This time, the candidate picked red for red, blue for blue, yellow for yellow. So speedy and accurate was he that naval surgeons marveled to see how a pair of human eyes could improve in 48 hours. They questioned the candidate, soon confused him, discovered the deceit. Candidate Rupp and...
Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the...
While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air...
He was wireless operator at John Wanamaker's in 1912. When the Titanic sank, he stayed on the job for 72 hours getting the record of the disaster, the list of survivors. When Radio Corp. absorbed American Marconi, Mr. Sarnoff, the Commercial Manager, retained his position. He became General...