Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection...
Thurston was a great success in China. He likes the Chinese. Once he gave a performance at the White House, borrowed Calvin Coolidge's watch, seemingly smashed it to bits. Mr. Coolidge was imperturable, said nothing. Thurston returned the watch unharmed, congratulated the President on "setting the standard of discretion for the world...
Made last summer by the University Film foundation at "Stoneacre," the residence of F. G. Hall '04, in Gloucester, this film depicts the technique of drypoint, as it is done by Mr. Hall. It shows in all detail the method of obtaining a drypoint from the original pencil drawing...
Beginning with an exhibition of the various tools and the lines made by these instruments, the process is carried through to the final production of the rich, velvety print which is characteristic of drypoint. The picture is enhanced by the setting of Mr. Hall's studio along the North Shore. Close-up views of the artist at work and of details of the plate at various stages make clear the understanding of prints produced by this process...
...Mr. Buckner was admitted to the New York bar in 1908, and since then has practiced in New York City. From 1908 to 1910 he was assistant United States attorney of the Southern district of New York; in the following two years, he was assistant district attorney of New York county. After being a councilman in the Aldermanic Police. Investigation of New York City for a year, he became a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner, and Howland. In 1925 he was appointed by President Coolidge as United States district attorney for the Southern district...