Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...
This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
During the ten years that followed, Painter Motley had to work hard. He waited on dining-car tables, did some light plumbing, some heavy coal-heaving and painted a lot more pictures. One of these, A Mulattress won him the Frank G. Logan medal and prize at the Chicago Art Institute Exhibition in 1925. Last week he achieved the honor of a one-man exhibition in Manhattan, an honor which, so far as is known, no Negro has ever before achieved. To the New Galleries came a motley crowd, including Ralph Pulitzer, part-owner of the N. Y. World...
Three socially unregistered candidates opposed, but without reckoning the fact that people do a lot of things at Palm Beach that they would not do at home. The excitement of this new game called Politics so lured idle sunbathers, tennis players and drink-sippers that, entitled to vote or not, they turned campaigners...
...know whether you have daughters,* but I do know that if you had any, you would not want to see them working for $7.52 a week [the average wage for girls in Kresge stores, according to a report scrutinized by Senator Couzens].... I think you could do a lot more for girls by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they get into trouble...