Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City. ¶President Coolidge commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of one Malcomb Howard, 35, Negro, convicted in Washington of murdering Jessie Nelson, girl friend, last winter...
...Hopping, ten to eight. They played good polo. They knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
...Frank Nelson Doubleday, potent publisher of magazines and books, pounced on Professor Siegfried's words and found that they were meat for his new pet, Personality.* He wrote to leading U. S. newspaper publishers and asked them what they thought of Professor Siegfried's remarks. The results were printed in the July Personality...
...corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...