Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resources of the country and a profound modification in the primitive culture of its savage population. Almost invariably, industrialization of a country inhabited by primitive people has resulted in the destruction of their native culture and not infrequently of the native population itself, which is not immunized against white man's diseases and white man's civilization...
...view that Liberia is "the white man's grave" is, in Mr. Schwab's opinion, wholly erroneous. He says, "During our seven months constant travelling in Liberia, with almost daily change of water, living largely off the country, under constant exposure to whatever 'dangers' to health there might be, we did not have a single day's illness." However, because of the complete ignorance of the natives of hygiene, and the fact that there are only three physicians in the whole hinterland, the population is likely to decrease rather than to increase. Mr. Schwab thinks that the country may once...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta, Ga., lawyer and family man, announced on his 27th birthday (March 17) that he would compete this year only in the U.S. amateur and open golf championships. In four out of the last five national amateur (match play) championships, Lawyer Jones has been victor. In five of the last six open (medal play) tournaments he has finished either first or second...
...descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
...started to put Coca-Cola over in a large way. So successful was he that in 1919 the company was sold for $25,000,000, was organized as a Delaware corporation. The present management took hold in 1923. Chairman of the Board is W. C. Bradley, Columbus, Ga., textile man and banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler...