Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list (see p. 51) of U. S. colleges and universities, and individuals upon whom they this year bestow kudos. The name of one great university is missing. It is missing every year. Cornell University gives no honorary degrees...
...more than 30 years, thousands of Negroes, dressed in purple silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty...
...name of the stores was. and still is, "Nedick's"-taken from the first syllables of the names of their original founders. Under the new company, business prospered. Fame came to Nedick's Orangeade. Bankers, brokers, bakers, brakemen, drank freely of it on hot summer days...
Amtorg, Am-Derutra. Full name of Amtorg is American Trading Organization. Ask curly-haired Saul George Bron, Am-torg Board Chairman, if Amtorg is a Russian governmental agent and he will become voluble in explaining that it is a U. S. corporation, organized in 1924, and no Soviet arm. Nevertheless, Amtorg, like Amkino, Am-Derutra, and many another Russian trading corporation, acts with the approval and the co-operation of the Soviet government, or specifically, with the Soviet Supreme Economic Council...
...Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific, thus gave Guatemala, a coast-to-coast railway...