Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Across the bridge we were in Cambridge, a city of 120,000 people, without a daily paper. It is dominated by Harvard University, the oldest in America. We motored by many noble piles most of them in the Colonial style, all devoted to learning, and nestling behind ancient trees are the residences of the professors, the hostels of the students and administrative building. Harvard has an endowment of six million pounds, and pious benefactors (i.e., multi-millionaires) are constantly donating new buildings. I think Harvard and its equipment impressed me more with the wealth of the United States than anything...
...Commission's chair (each man has his turn) is Commissioner Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who dissented vigorously and voluminously from the St. Paul decision, is a product of Amherst and the Massachusetts public service commission. Richard V. Taylor, oldest Commissioner, 68, was once (1921) elected Mayor of Mobile, Ala., where he was a railroad official. Commissioner Frank McManamy is a workaday railroader out of Michigan who helped William Gibbs McAdoo run trains during...
...hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names. He had known them well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came. Bankers, waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself as well as its mayor. . . . In the night, 18 fiery crosses were seen. "Utterly absurd, silly and foolish," said Mayor Lodge, implying that he could not help...
Gears. Four of the oldest manufacturers of gears merged: Van Dorn & Dutton of Cleveland, Ohio Forge of Cleveland, William Ganschow of Chicago and Fawcus Machine of Pittsburgh. Called Gears & Forgings, Inc., their combined resources are $6,000,000, their combined annual output...
BROADWAY?The oldest entertainment consecutively at home in Manhattan. Dancers, thugs, guns. (TIME, Sept...