Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...m not a flapper but would like to correspond with men and women between the ages of 25 and 32." Fat Nellie Wallace wrote that in Tchula, Miss.; lonely Joe Sleet read it in El Paso, in the advertising columns of a magazine. He wrote to Nellie Wallace and sent her a lock of hair. That was ten months...
...something. Then, at scheduled moments during the day or week, the Nominee can simply take off his invisible-silencing-suit or whatever device has been provided for his privacy, and, face-to-face and mouth-to-ear with the whole electorate, can simply say: "Good morning, everybody. I'm feeling fine today. I had a good sleep and prunes for breakfast, thank you. As you can see, the weather's lovely here. I think I'll go fishing this afternoon. Don't forget what I said about intending to help the Farmer and to uphold...
...England Power. Last week, New England's Comerford came to the board of directors of International Paper, joining a group of potent New York and Boston financiers. Among them: Frank N. B. Close (vice president, Bankers Trust Co.) ; H. C. Phipps (New York Trust Co.); Ogden M. Reid (president, New York Tribune, Inc.); John R. Macomber (president, Harris, Forbes...
Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant...
Died. Leos Janacek, 74, prolific Czech composer (Jenufa, Sinfoinetta), who wrote more than 30 operas after he had passed 60 years of age; of pneumonia; in Mährisch-Ostrau, Austria...