Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring in young blood the G. A. R. elected as next year's Commander-in-Chief Edward J. Foster of Worcester, Mass., who, 15 at the end of the war, is now a mere 79. Cincinnati was selected for next year's encampment. Bustling with plans for the future, the Grand Army steadfastly ignored the fact that more than 1,000 of their number are dying every month...
...Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to help the Anti-Saloon League of that State elect a superintendent. Addressing his local brethren he referred to William J. Calhoun, who only a few days before had been made Federal Prohibition Administrator for New Jersey, as follows...
...conditions don't improve in New Jersey under the new Federal administration of William J. Calhoun then they will improve under a new administrator. Washington means business in this State...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...though the electric utility seems to have been expressly designed for capitalistic development, it is only within the present year that J. P. Morgan & Co., most potent embodiment of U. S. capital, has entered largely into the light and power field. Excited, last week, were U. S. newspapers and U. S. senators when the Morgan utility interests acquired from the Mellon utility interests a group of light and power companies along the St. Lawrence River. Significant indeed was this transaction, but in a larger sense it was only a milestone along the Morgan utility road. When the economic textbooks...