Word: poled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed John W. Pole of Cleveland to be Comptroller of the Currency, vice Joseph W. Mclntosh resigned. Duties of the Comptroller of the Currency are to supervise application of the banking laws, study reports from U. S. bank examiners. All national banks must report to him periodically. He has power to close banks with shaky resources...
...Pole vault: First, Osborne Sutermeister '32 (8 inches); second, W. H. Cleaver '29 (scratch); third, C. E. Dunlap '30 (scratch). Height--12 feet, 2 inches...
Yesterday afternoon, the second day of the Fall Handicap Track Meet, the finals of the 100-yard and 200-yard dashes, the 120-yard low hurdles, three quarter mile run, high jump, and pole vault were completed...
Died. Frank Gifford Drew, 56, chairman of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and director of nearly a dozen other companies; when his automobile hit a telephone pole and overturned near Toms River...
Governor Byrd's widest claim to fame is his brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...