Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN PARKS GILMER...
...Jones is suing a California motion picture company for $150,000 for exploiting the name of her late husband, John Luther ("Casey") Jones, engineer-hero of the singing rails (TIME...
...Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler's fellow rich men. The real pioneers of Tycoon's Coast were the group that formed the Jekyl Island Club in 1886, some 200 families, including Morgans, Goulds, Rockefellers, Drexels. Carnegies. John D. Rockefeller's life-perpetuating estate and private golf course at Ormond came later...
...Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a "rule of the mountain," which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime "mountain rule" was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, "logical" candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME...
Iowa. Re-elected Governor John Hammill of Iowa helped keep supposedly embattled farmers in line for President-Elect Hoover. Having talked with Nominee Hoover on the latter's journey west. Governor Hammill took airplane, flew to Des Moines, told Iowa's Legislature that Mr. Hoover would certainly solve the farm problem (TIME, July...