Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Villa Rocabella near Locarno, Switzerland, was recently leased by a mysterious tenant, a lean, fox-faced German. Last week he motor-boated from Swiss Locarno across Lake Maggiore to Italian Stresa and there took the train for Milan. The next night he returned past Lake Maggiore, hurried on to Lucerne, where he doffed his incognito and admitted that he was the former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany...
...working on a design for a sports window for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His depiction of polo, golf, tennis, baseball, steeplechasing, cycling, handball, swimming, gymnastics, yachting, bowling, billiards, horse racing, rowing, track athletics, football, skating, hockey, soccer, fencing, wrestling, pole vaulting, boxing, trap shooting and motor boating is being hooted at, for lack of realism meets not with the approval of everyone. Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and trustee of the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin, last week flayed the idea in a letter to the Churchman: "If that [sporting] life is to be symbolized...
...What motor car company named two dealers members of its board of directors...
...platform in Detroit last January sat a quiet, alert, well-dressed man. Close to him sat Robert C. Graham, Vice President and General Sales Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc. Before him in the amphitheatre sat some 3,000 retail sellers of Dodge motor cars and Graham trucks. The quiet, alert one had bought out their company for $146,000,000 some time before (TIME, April 13). He was Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., the Manhattan banking house...
Subsequently the first two such dealers were recommended for the Board and their own acceptance was this week announced by E. G. Wilmer, Chairman. They were C. M. Bishop, General Manager of Bishop, McCormick & Bishop of Brooklyn, and F. S. Albertson, President of the Albertson Motor Co. of Los Angeles. Both are "original" Dodge dealers, hard workers, good salesmen, thoughtful businessmen...