Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made plans to visit Omaha on Oct. 6 to speak before the American Legion Convention and to review a parade of War Veterans, as well as to address the Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago early in December...
Last week he returned from seven years in the service of his country overseas. There was no mention of the fact in Detroit, in Kansas City, in Omaha, in New Orleans-no mention even in Philadelphia, a bare 100 miles from Manhattan's midriff, where he disembarked. He is not, like Andrew Mellon or Rodolfo Valentino, a newspaper character...
...left the House of Representatives to run for Senator, but a Republican legislature was elected in Nebraska?and from then on he met defeat at the polls. He became editor of The Omaha World-Herald (owned by Gilbert M. Hitchcock) and went from his editorial office as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1896?the beginning of his political ascendency. He went to speak for the farmers of the West who believed their troubles were caused by a shortage of currency. He went to the Convention demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver, crying: "You shall...
...conversations number 182 a year in the U. S. (Denmark, Nor- way, Sweden-124, 109, 95-follow next in order. Russia averages 4 conversations per capita annually.) ¶ The city with the most telephones per capita is San Francisco with 28.8 per 100 population. Other cities in order are: Omaha (28.3 per 100), Minneapolis (24.8), Stockholm (24.6), Washington (24.1), Chicago (23.8), Denver (22.7), Los Angeles (22), Toronto (21). ¶ Cities with less than five telephones per 100 population include : Amsterdam, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Antwerp, Glasgow, Liverpool, Prague, Manchester, Marseilles, Birmingham, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Naples. ¶ The world...
Trans-Mississippi (amateur). At Omaha, Trans-Mississippi Champion James Manion, St. Louis, teed his ball on the first tee at the Omaha Field Club. His fellow townsman, Don Anderson, had played him to a standstill, all square in 18 holes. James Manion knocked this 19th drive clean into 36th Street, out of bounds. There went his title. Clarence Wolfe, another St. Louisan, subdued Anderson that afternoon, 2 and 1. In the final, Wolfe broke the course record with a 70. His opponent, Arthur Bartlett of Ottumwa, la., promptly countered with a 69, but lost to a fighting finish. Champion Wolfe...