Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...L. HARRIS Automatic Electric Inc. Chicago...
...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
Last week, the Indian market was reported "stabilized." The war was declared at an end. Observers recalled that Chairman Herbert L. Pratt of the Standard Oil of N. Y. had been a recent European tourist, had probably met Sir Henri and patched a peace. Also, the peace follows quickly on the election of Charles F. Meyer to the presidency of Standard of N. Y. Meyer and Deterding had strangely parallel careers, East & West (TIME, April...
...Nathan L. Miller, onetime (1920-22) Governor of New York, famed U. S. Steel attorney, was retained last week by Verner Reed, wealthy onetime Denverite, to defend a butler against a charge of cruelty to animals. The butler was Felix Solomon, who two weeks ago shot and killed a neighbor's monkey that had invaded the Reed estate and was threatening two Reed infants...
...with the French Revolutionists' declaration of the Rights of Man, the black slaves of Haiti, in all consistency, revolted against their masters-rich Creoles, and supercilious whites. A slave born of slave parents, Pierre-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...