Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana, land of mystic fraternizers, some Indianapolis politicians founded the Order of Elephants to promote "Republican principles." It will have an initiation ritual, but otherwise will bear "no resemblance to the Ku Klux Klan." Question: Is Senator James E. Watson an honorary member...
Special Prayers are arranged for use at British elections, and other crises, for the League of Nations, for foreign missions, for hospitals and for "the forces of the King by sea, land...
...Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later, in Wooster, Ohio. Denied extensive education, they sold newspapers, saved, moved to Cleveland, worked as office boys, saved more. Borrowing, they purchased a wooded tract near Cleveland, pronounced it the future residence district. Borrowing more, they made their land accessible by rapid transit, bought more land. They still buy. Twelve square miles of residence property (homes worth $25,000 or more) have been or are being developed through their office. Their practice in talking sparingly, pointedly with Cleveland bankers has made it easier for them when they venture...
Kreider-Rotzel Realty Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) and Campbell-Ewald (Detroit agency) for best local campaign. They sold land to the family man one day, to his wife the next...
...Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods eccentricity and hospitality. Floods, prairies, a great pine swamp, the canebrakes of the Ohio, midwinter moose "yards...