Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced by name the scholarly beneficiaries of its munificence, to the extent of $143,000, for the coming year. Newspapers gave the item the prominence due to anything connected with the name of Simon Guggenheim, onetime U. S. Senator from Colorado (father of the memorialized John Simon Guggenheim, deceased 1922). They explained that the $3,500,000 foundation was to foster research work by young, productive U. S. scholars and artists; that some 600 such scholars applied for fellowships, this year 63 of them being rewarded. But the newspapers made no attempt to explain what...
...correct an error which occurred in your Feb. 7 issue? The item reads: "Mrs. Coolidge received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
Clarence Walker Barron, editor: "This item appeared in my Barron's Weekly, financial newspaper, last week: 'Bewhiskered men in the financial district are not common. Some favor the mustache, but few go in for beards. George F. Baker, dean of the American banking field, is entitled to the honor of maintaining the dignity of bankers for he boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption...
...last four years, observant Alabamans have said that Birmingham's new "greatness" began in 1922 when Publisher Frederick I. Thompson, who publishes all the newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...
...Naval Appropriation Bill which gives the Navy $316,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1928. Of this sum $19,808,000 will be used for naval aviation, $450,000 is allotted to begin the construction of three new cruisers. The last item has been steadfastly opposed by the President; he made no comment...