Word: lincoln
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After the drafting last week of an agreement between Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and British Government officials for better U.S.-British co-operation on prohibition enforcement. (See p. 9.) Mr. Kellogg said: "It is not desirable to publish the text of the agreement for obvious reasons...
What is considered the greatest blow to transatlantic bootlegging since the Dry law went into effect was the U. S.-British agreement signed last week by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and R. G. Van Sittart for Great Britain. Joint co-operation in the British West Indies (with particular reference to the Bahamas) is assured whereby: 1) The U. S. may have an Intelligence Service in the Islands to trace liquor shipments; 2) Joint precautions will be taken against false registration of ships...
...minds the advertising of the Ford automobile lacked what we consider a very essential quality. . . there was no distinct, quotable theme." Yet the Ford Company has one product about which it cast a distinct atmosphere-an impression of ne plus ultra. Probably more money was spent in advertising the Lincoln car than was spent on any other conveyance in the world's history, considering its estimated market. But for that campaign, a campaign that made Lincoln, Edsel Ford was responsible...
Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn...
Died. Joseph Murray, 82, one-time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...