Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge executed an order raising the tariff on sodium silicofluoride from 25% of its foreign value to 25% of its market value in the U. S. The chemical is used for acid rinses in laundries and for manufacturing enamel ware and opalescent glass. The U. S. consumption is some 5,000,000 lbs. per annum, of which about half is imported, mainly from Denmark...
...that a band of Michigan settlers proudly named a rude village Ypsilanti. Last week some 7,000 of its citizens met to see the presentation of a marble bust of Demetrios Ypsilanti to the city by the Archontic Order of the Ahepa, Greek-American patriotic society, 3,500 visiting Ahepans paraded for two miles. Greek Aviator Nick Manteris, of Detroit, dropped a memorial wreath...
...time when citizens who want to vote, especially citizens who have never voted before, begin to wonder when and where they must register in order to vote in the Presidential election in November. Following is a list, State by State, date by date, showing where registration closes comparatively early. (In States not listed, voters may register up to the week before Election Day, or be sworn in at the polls on Nov. 6, or qualify by producing tax receipts...
...except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even...
...Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they may be, are not so avidly patronized that their prices approach those of the most famed Europeans. George Benjamin Luks, Eugene Edward Speicher, Wayman Adams, and Leopold Seyffert probably have...