Word: pres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, Pres. ; "Bud" Fisher, 1st V. P.; "Rube" Goldberg, 2nd V. P.; Edward McCullaugh, 3rd V. P. New York...
True it is, nevertheless, that Dunstable, if he did not actually originate contrapuntal composition, still developed it greatly, and English counterpoint affecting the Netherlands made possible the work of Okenhelm and Josquin Des Pres, the first great composer...
...committee of bondholders, own the onetime Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, a system estimated at $750,000,000. They bought it at an auction sale in Butte, Mont., last week for $140,000,000 and their promise to untangle the road's debts, no light task. For the pres-ent there will be no change among the operating executives. But the system's name has been altered to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad, with "The Milwaukee" as the nickname to be popularized. In St. Paul, famed neighbor of famed Minneapolis, Minn., this renaming is viewed with vexation...
...farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State. For example their household goods are carried practically free from the cities to the farmlands. None the less, farmer Jews are at pres ent unprosperous, and face a long struggle to develop their new lands...
...been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase, devoted more attention to the altitude of his pile than...