Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edsel Bryant Ford's new yacht Sialia was launched at Neponset, Mass. Later this winter he may hoist the red-white-&-blue triangles of the Detroit Boat Club* and sail to southern waters...
Heroes. Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears, Roebuck, early in the decline offered to cover the margin accounts of all his employes, became the prime hero. Later Standard Oil of New York became hero-ized with its announcement that it would lend $43 a share ($11 above the market at one point) to employes who had borrowed on their holdings. Other helping companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey, Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, U. S. Steel, Newton Steel. Late last week, when Washington's official silence was broken with promise of the tax reduction, then of an industrial conference, Hoover...
...Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from Oct. 13-Nov. 15, as compared to 53 last year...
...Chicago college was founded in 1856 with a land grant obtained by its first board chairman, famed Stephen Arnold Douglas, when he was U. S. Senator. But in 1886 it failed and died, lacking money. It was an entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave...
Grocer Feldman then emptied his till, gave the contents ($45) to the Negro, who disappeared into the night. Later Grocer Feldman went to the police. "It was the same man," he declared, "and the same pistol...