Word: onondaga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Syracuse, The Onondaga...
...late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City, the Prince Edward in Windsor, Canada, the Roosevelt in Manhattan and many another...
...advised by Tammany that he was to lead a ticket upon which William Randolph Hearst would run for U. S. Senator. Ensuing events at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, where the convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press...
...Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
Some time ago, the Ford Company put two vessels, the Oncida and Onondaga, into service carrying automobile and tractor parts to Ford assembly plants in coastal ports. Last fall, the Onondaga made its first foreign trip, carrying auto parts to Buenos Aires. Now another ship, the East Indian, is reconditioning at Chester, Diesel engines being installed...