Word: oct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words, the rationing system is part of a vast plan which Dictator Josef ("Steel") Stalin is relentlessly pursuing. If the rationing system pinches Russian stomachs, then that also is part of the, plan, anticipated by Dictator Stalin and the Communist Party and to be borne stoically by Russians until Oct. 1, 1933, if necessary. For until that date the Soviet Government and "Boss" Stalin have thoroughly committed themselves to an economic problem which is to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial giant, nourished during the next four years by a 24-billion-dollar investment in factory equipment. Of this...
...safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
...Oscar De Priest, the wife of a new U. S. Representative from Illinois. Mrs. De Priest's husband is the first Negro to sit in Congress since 1900. She was the first U. S. member of their race to be entertained in the White House proper since Oct. 18, 1901, when President Roosevelt had the late Booker T. Washington at his luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited...
...Paul H. Means said that after my illness I would not be able to continue my fencing instruction next season. In the CRIMSON dated June the 8th it stated I had been a teacher at Harvard for 8 years, which is a mistake; my first agreement was made Oct. 1st, 1919, which would make it 10 years; I had the honor with my pupils to win the championship three times; the first in 1922, the second 1923, the third 1924. Harvard College never had the opportunity of winning any championships for 26 years...
Broadway was lately threatened with a momentary darkening of all its blazing electrical signs, as a gesture by the sign-owners to compel attention to the difference such signs make in a city's trade, night-life and general atmosphere. On Oct. 21, all the Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison...