Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of Charles Phelps Taft was the largest yet made by a gentile to the Hebrew Union College, which is raising a $5,000,000 endowment fund. Mr. Schiff also gave $50,000 to the Hebrew Union College, as did Henry Morgenthau, Samuel Untermyer, William (cinema) Fox, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg,† Ludwig Vogelstein; Daniel, Murry, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The estate of the late Louis Heineman contributed $150,000 and Adolph (cinema) Zukor gave...
...where Erskine Gwynne and Peggy Joyce were amusing themselves with separate parties. Erskine Gwynne had written an article called "Peggy Hotsprings Choice, Five Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together at 5 a. m. At 10:30 a. m. Peggy Joyce, preparing to leave Paris, spoke to reporters in an English accent. "Erskine really did not mean it," she giggled, "and I understand how it all happened...
James A. Reed, U. S. Senator from Missouri, addressed a curious audience at the City Club, in Cleveland. He called Harry M. Daugherty a "political leper," Andrew W. Mellon a "betrayer," Calvin Coolidge, "a man about whom I would not say he knew anything unless I knew he knew." Then Senator Reed remarked that "Will Hays, Tsar of the Movies, deceived the Senate Teapot Dome Committee," and suggested that Mr. Hays be replaced by Fatty Arbuckle...
...discount the promissory notes of Ford motor car buyers, as General Motors Acceptance Corp. has discounted billions of dollars of G. M. C.-made cars, Detroit bankers were busy last week organizing the Universal Finance Co. It will get its chattel money from and through the Guardian Trust Co. of Detroit and its affiliated Guardian Detroit Bank (in Detroit) and Guardian Detroit Co. (security house in Manhattan). Among directors of the Guardian Trust of Detroit are potent motor car makers...
...girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape the American Mercurial twins, Twaddle-dum and Twiddle-dee, now that you mencken it, one with H. L. M. embroidered on his collar, and the other, G. J. N. They conversed solemnly with Alice, and tried to entertain her. But Alice declared herself bored, and immediately the two little men vanished, leaving her to walk the Primrose Path...