Word: midlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TINSEL?Charles Hanson Towne?Appleton ($2). Author Towne has been moved to chronicle a Midland social climber; how she scrambled as high as Newport and Palm Beach, barked her plump shins and returned at last to the shade of the family awning factory in Eureka. Her son, daughter and husband suffered in kind. The idea was to make it a gently humorous tale, and the Eureka Independence Day tableau starts things off well?Delia Nesbit, the awning queen, as Miss Columbia, and other Eureka dames assigned states according to social pedigree. But too many of the author's other ideas...
...three Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will be Pensacola, Fla., on the east, and Fort Worth, Tex., on the west; in the north Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis; in the west Denver...
...Douglas Straight, onetime Inspector General of Police in India, and the noted London barrister, Harry Higgins, testified that Sir Basil had often expressed to them his intention of going to Hyde Park to seek material for his book. The Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank and onetime (1911-15) Home Secretary, joined with Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Hall in testifying to the "irreproachable character of Sir Basil...
...POOR NUT?A contemporary, native and unimportant laughing matter over young men and women in a Midland* college...