Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
TIME Chicago, Ill...
...official family had sent a delegation to welcome back their pater familias patriae. Next day found the family reassembled?all except the substantial Secretary of War who still was ill at his summer home in New Hampshire. The hulking Attorney General strolled grinning into the White House office building, the heavy treading Secretary of Interior, the tired Secretary of the Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg...
Then bespangled officials decided that such half measures were of no avail. They turned the cake over to a neighboring War orphanage. When the last orphan had eaten the last crumb without ill effect, the polizei became convinced that no attempt had been made on the life of William Hohenzollern...
Attached to the ill-fated #34, he made the 57-hour trip to the Baltic, obtained a British pilot's license, became a regular member of her crew. Previously he had attended at her modeling, her building. His training completed by study of the Zeppelin in Germany, Lansdowne was regarded as one of the half-dozen ablest lighter-than-air commanders in the world...