Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge. The first week's session of the American Institute of Co operation, meeting at the Louisiana capi tal, produced a super-cooperative organization?The National Chamber of Agricultural Cooperatives. Its purpose: To join together all farm cooperatives. Its new president : Christopher Otto Moser of Dallas, head of American Cotton Growers Exchange...
Divorced. Elmo Lincoln (real name: Otto Elmo Linkenheit), cinemactor (Tarzan of the Apes); by Mrs. Lincoln. Grounds: another woman...
...last week, made a new record- 174 hr. 59 sec. They made 24 refueling contacts, used 1,903 gal. of gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer, Backer Liesy is famed for bouncing parties at his suburban home...
Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...
...heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto-maker Bosch therefore turned to trucks, racing cars, motor boats, airplanes, continued old prosperity in new markets...