Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. William M. Jardine, onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture; to be board chairman of Investment Corp. of North America, succeeding the late Lyman B. Kendall...
Engagement Broken. By Princess, Irene of Greece, second-youngest daughter of the late King Constantine; with Prince Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, nephew of Denmark's King Christian...
Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting Bob") Ingersoll, famed agnostic. "When that pair got through talking," said Mr. Durland, "the judge just took it away from the jury and dismissed the complaint...
...Arcy Ryan, who is to General Electric Co.'s light research what the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz was to its studies in power, is charged with arranging electrical displays all over the U. S. for a summer-long continuation of the festivities...
...this opinion he was joined by the late great George Westinghouse. Both counselled against attempting to make and transmit Alternating Current, despite its comparative cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...