Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation in Manhattan. Meanwhile, it had been a pioneer in the erection of a model Church House for boys' clubs and the like...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Lake Placid Club has never attempted complete fonetic spelling as yu report (TIME, Apr. 20, P. 16) but it does omit many useless and misleading letters as needed pioneer work. The ending of sing, bring, etc., is neither n, g, nor any combination of n and g, but a simple sound which skolars the world over for almost a century hav represented by a taild...
Died. Elwood Haynes, 67, automobile pioneer; in Kokomo, Ind., of influenza. On July 4, 1894, he drove his first "horseless buggy" into Kokomo at the rate of eight miles an hour. When he took it to Chicago, he was ordered to "get that contraption off the streets." His original invention is now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
...last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...largest consolidation in the history of the petroleum industry occurred when Edward L. Doheny, pioneer Mexican oil producer, sold control of the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Co. to a syndicate composed of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, the bankers Blair & Co., the Chase Securities Corporation and certain British interests represented by Lord Iverforth. Just what Mr. Doheny received for his 501,000 shares (out of a total of 1,001,556 voting shares) is not known, but, based on recent market prices, the con- sideration was probably in the neighborhood...