Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round 4. Enter one branch of the U. S. Government, in the form of a man who is seldom news: Howard Sutherland, acting Alien Property Custodian. Said he: "I did as my judgment and conscience dictated." His deed was to support Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with proxies for 12,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana stock, which had been seized from Germans and Austrians during the World War and for which Mr. Sutherland is sole trustee...
Round 8. The Twentieth Century Limited pulled into Grand Central Station, Manhattan, and a man whose figure and stride made other travelers look like weaklings, smiled at reporters and told them to follow him into the Hotel Biltmore. There, the onetime Rooseveltian Rough Rider named Robert Wright Stewart sat in a little blue chair and said: "In the third place, I sincerely hope that Mr. Rockefeller is having a very nice time on his trip abroad...
...Innovation, the pioneer, remained the leader. Eventually, however, Oshkosh, Hartmann and other trunk companies became more potent in the field. Finally, in 1924, Innovation had a renovation. Inventor Bonsall turned over the direction of the company to its present head, Anthony J. Trentacoste, who has been an Innovation trunk-man for 22 years and is responsible for the present expansion policy. Mr. Bonsall is now Director of International Interests of the Dewatered Products Combination, a chemical organization with a de-watering process of Mr. BonsalL's invention...
...meeting in Memphis, in addition to denouncing racketeering (another organization, the National Alliance of Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers has also been active in the fight on rackets) also worried about price-cutting. Dry cleaning prices vary; in and around Manhattan there is a "standard" price of $1.50 for a man's suit. In many an eastern city there are also "Dollar Cleaners" operating at a $1 price. In the West and Southwest, however price-cutting has reached the slashing stage. There are places where one can have a suit cleaned for 35¢ and two suits cleaned for 36¢. "Regular...
Some years ago, a Lehigh, University Professor told me this story concerning a Harvard graduate who was living in his home at that time and attending to the furnace. One day the Professor broached the subject of the Astronomical Observatory at Harvard. The young man looked puzzled and said, "Observatory? I don't know anything about such a place in Cambridge...