Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...normally a cattle pasture for the poorest farmers, smoothing it out for Col. Lindbergh's landing wheels. A special stamp issue was prepared; the government decreed free railway rides for all who wished to welcome the flyer. President Ricardo Jiminez described him as "created expressly by the Supreme Power for marvelous flights . . . exalts the airplane and consecrates it anew." He hovered over Sabana, swooped three times and circled; finally dropped a note that he could not land until police cleared the pasture. They did. The Spirit of St. Louis was trundled into a specially built barbed wire cage. Speeches...
...substantial bequest to the trustees of his estate, Mr. Homer H. Johnson '88 and Mr. Arthur V. Davis, to be devoted to educational work in Asia and the Balkan States in such manner and through such agencies as his trustees might think best. The trustees, acting under the discretionary power given them, have devoted a considerable part of Mr. Hall's bequest to the endowment of the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, with centers in Cambridge and in Peking...
Died. B. C. Edgar, 50, vice president and general manager of the Tennessee Electric Power Co., president of the Nashville Light & Power Co.; in Chattanooga...
...first two, there was little to be said. It was true that John P. Morgan, the big, impressive, genial 61-year-old, Episcopal banker, whose name in every language is a synonym for the power of wealth, had never before accepted a principal office in an enterprise which his banking house had financed.* Many people have observed the increasing potency of silver-haired, 65-year-old, Catholic James Augustine Farrell, whose father was a New Haven shipowner...
...were older than himself. In a sense, he was like them, carrying on in his small person many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because he possessed that most delicious of all hungers, an unsurfeitable desire to gorge...