Word: lester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have to pay over this money, for, although they knew nothing of their nefarious employes' doings they are The Armour Grain Co. But in the present case, although they must pay over $3,000,000 to the Farmers' Co-operative Grain Marketing Co. they will get back...
...subscriber to TIME. In TIME, Jan. 24, I notice under MILESTONES : "Married, Constance Towner, daughter of Gov. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Lester B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish." This statement is incorrect as I happen to have been present at the marriage of Miss Bertha Allen, daughter of the first Civic Governor of Porto Rico, to Captain George Logan, U. S. N. This marriage took place at the Executive Mansion...
...wisecracks, the charm of music, Peggy-Ann skipped right up to the head of the class in current musical diversions. Peggy-Ann (Helen Ford), a Cinderella in love with a penniless prince, falls asleep, dreams a crazy romance of department store and Cuban summer resort adventure. Helen Ford and Lester Cole sing the song hits, "In His Arms," "A Tree in the Park." Lulu McConnell, stylish stout comedienne, Charlestbns, croons, while pretty Betty Starbuck, as a clownish brat, keeps the audience a-roaring...
...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...
...Society from the Senior class: Carl Oscar Emamiel Anderson, Prescott Niles Arnold, Dana Converse Backus, Thomas Senior Berry, Gordon Marsh Benedict, Melvin Irving Bernstein, Dwight Wesley Chapman, Jr., David Luther Dickson, Warren Fosket Fair, Stanley Turner Frame, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Allan Holske, John Denisor: Houghton, Judah Isaacs, Lester Snow King, Glenn Allen Millikan, Charles Platt Jr. John Robert Richardson, Robert Thornton Smith, Abraham Harold Swirske, Henry Franklin Williams and Charles Edward Wyzanski...