Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...Liberal Club will debate Lincoln University, the pioneer negro college, at 8.15 o'clock this evening in Tremont Temple on the question: "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable." The Harvard team, composed of J. K. Fairbank '29 and E. H. Hubbard '30, will uphold the affirmative, while R. H. Hill and Thurgood Marshall, of Lincoln University, will uphold the negative of the question. L. G. Brooks '02, a Boston lawyer, will preside...
Previously the public had been aware for some years that the friends of H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born British department store pioneer, were habituated to his patronage of Rosie Dolly...
...subject for the debate is : "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable" Linoln University is America's Pioneer college for negrees, and its team will be well fitted to dicuss the question from the negrees point of view. The affirmative side of the question will be upheld by the Liberal Club represented by E. H. Hubbard '30 and J. K. Fairbank...
...Life. ... A turquoise lagoon under an aquamarine sky ! Lazy gondolas ! Beautiful Italian gardens! . . . And, ever present, the waters of the Great South Bay lapping lazily all the day upon a beach as white and fine as the soul of a little child "Thus, the log cabin of the modern pioneer...