Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1925 will prove the 255th birthday of the Hudson's Bay Co.- the oldest commercial company in the world. This ancient concern was organized in 1670, after Pierre Radisson, French promoter, had persuaded Charles II of England to send a small 50-ton ship, the Nonsuch, across the Atlantic to investigate the financial possibilities of Canada. The royal charter issued to the Company, still preserved in London, presented it with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government...
...handshaking was resumed for an hour with the admission of patriotic societies and the public, who had been standing without in the snow and cold for two or three hours. One man, a member of the Oldest In habitants of the District of Columbia, dropped dead from a heart attack just as he was admitted to the grounds. Among those received was Lieutenant Colonel R. G. Scott of Linn Creek, Mo., who first attended a White House reception in 1862. When the gates shut, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge retired with limp hands to rest...
Accordingly the bill for elevating the guns on our six oldest ships will again* come before Congress and may theoretically be settled on the grounds of military and economic advisability. Mr. Wilbur's summary of the comparative ranges of the British and U. S. Navies is as follows...
...advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger as his theme; two peasants are his personalities. Dealing in the oldest properties of drama-love and poverty - he has made an extraordinary film...
Died. The Rev. John J. Roche, 100, "oldest priest in the world"; in Belfast, Ireland. He attended the funeral of Pope Gregory...