Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park...
...that "Ever-Ready," "Gem" and "Star" blades were made from the same metal and in the same way?that they were in all respects identical except for name and wrapper. American's lawyers said that all this was ordinary business puffing. All this was enough to cause Judge William Nelson Runyan of the New Jersey Federal District Court to throw out the American Safety Razor's case...
...associates elected are: Frederick Pickering Cabot '90, Overseer; Eliot Wadsworth '98, Overseer; Ronald William Boyden '85, Overseer; Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, Fellow; and Jeremiah Smith '92, Fellow
White and bluish pink were the colors most favored this year for Court gowns, and in consequence harmonious bouquets of orchids were numerous. The most striking jeweled ornament to be worn was a $150,000 diamond sunburst originally presented to Admiral Lord Nelson by the Sultan of Turkey, and now owned by Mrs. G. Eyre-Matcham of Salisbury, England. The sunburst, operated by clockwork, revolved slowly, emitting dazzling rays which visibly attracted the attention of Their Majesties...
Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less...