Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following 12 men have been retained as a result of the tryouts for the university debating team, it was announced late last night by Coach E. M. Rowe: C. C. Alpern '28, E. F. Clark '28, R. F. Courtney '29, J. K. Fairbank '29, J. F. Harding '30, Jacques Herling '28, F. W. P. Lorensen '28, Brooks Otis '29, A. L. Raffa ocC., J. M. Swigert '30, U. G. Warren '30, R. C. Weaver...
...floor below him, fortified with a roof repairman's tools and a bland air of industry in case he was surprised, the hours slipped by. Swaddled thickly the baby slept below. It was dusk, and no picture. The next day Sarno crept out on his roof again. Late in the morning Baby Vera stirred, tossed. The tiny head, free of loving covers, lay exposed. Sarno swiftly exposed his picture plate, scuttled happily down the skylight, "beat" the town on the most difficult picture story of the week...
...What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," was a dictum of late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall which passed into the nation's higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline...
Many years ago the late Captain James C. Corrigan bought vast iron ore fields in the Lake Superior district. The late Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller and the late William Rockefeller, was his partner. John D. Rockefeller loaned them money, taking a mortgage on the ore lands. He foreclosed the mortgage for needs of his own and later sold the minerals to the U. S. Steel Corp., prof iting greatly. Captain Corrigan was wrecked financially. Frank Rockefeller nourished an antagonism toward his brother John...
Captain Corrigan then formed a partnership with the late Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland to make steel. They prospered, but in 1900 tragedy overtook Corrigan when his yacht Idler sank in Lake Erie, and Mrs. Corrigan, three daughters and a grandchild were drowned...