Word: interred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the student year book, was an officer of the Latin club and the discussion club, was winner of the annual wrangler cup contest, was chief writer for the student year book, played leading roles in school dramatics, and received honorable mention this year in the Forum magazine inter-scholastic national poetry contest...
...capital stock tax raised to $1.40 per $1,000. Upped estate taxes ranged from 2% on amounts over $40,000 to 70% on those over $50,000,000. Gift taxes were set at three-fourths of estate taxes. Holding companies were penalized by a 1½% tax on inter-corporation dividends...
...flying school to pay for lessons, became the 15th U. S. woman to get a transport license. For her able 17,000-mi. solo flight around South America last year, in which she "lost nothing-not even a garter," she received a national trophy from the Ligue Inter-Rationale des Aviateurs. Few months ago she became the first woman to win the coveted Scheduled Air Transport rating of the Bureau of Air Commerce...
...anecdote that throws a cold realistic light on the romance of Hearn's expatriation and marriage. That the son has thought deeply about his father's career and character is readily apparent from the pages of Father and I. That he has brooded over the problem of inter-racial marriage, and questioned the wisdom of his parents' course, is suggested in several speculative paragraphs. Once Hearn contemplated writing an essay on mixed marriage and discussed it with his Japanese wife, who pointed out that he was the product of such a marriage, asked if he considered himself...
...years Reporter Howey was city editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, founded by Charles T. Yerkes as a political houseorgan for that tycoon's traction schemes. When the paper had done its job, Yerkes presented it to his editor, George Wheeler Hinman, with an electric light plant in the Loop for good measure to pay the paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman...