Word: knights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriots boiled last week over a stricture passed by Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...
John J. Raskob, vice president of the General Motors Corp., had audience with Pope Pius XI and received a special benediction. A Knight of Malta, Mr. Raskob had contributed to the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Rome, favorite mission of the Pope. Said Mr. Raskob: "His Holiness was particularly pleasant...
Back from the warmth and flowers of Hawaii where many a U. S. businessman takes winter's rest, John North Willys, of Toledo, last week: 1) reduced the prices of all Willys-Knight Standard Six models by $150; 2) hired every man who applied for factory work in order to reach a required production of 2,000 cars daily; 3) received reports from salesmen that they had sold 30,000 cars during March; 4) notified Willys-Overland stockholders that their net income last year had been $6,341,519, the equivalent of $2.04 on each company share...
Returning to Palestine for a sentimental journey after the pseudo-austerities of his pilgrimage in Brother Saul, Author Byrne tells the tale of Miles O'Neill, a young Irish knight seeking fortune after being dispossessed at home. Palestine is technically at peace, between crusades. The saviors and guardians of the Lord's Sepulchre have nothing better to do than gamble extravagantly, dawdle quarrelsomely and bicker about Doctrine...
...Atlanta on the 26th birthday of Robert Tyre Jones Jr., A. Wise Wood last week called Jones a "young knight" for refusing a $50,000 house and lot offered to him by his admirers. When he had stopped talking Mrs. Bobby Jones unveiled a portrait of her husband painted by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne...