Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have selected my man as carefully as I chose my first pair of long trousers. Of course I am for Governor Smith. I find that most intelligent and broadminded young people heartily approve of him. Briefly, Smith is more of a man than Hoover, has a better record and would make a better President."−Austin Lamont, youngest son of Thomas William Lament, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Lament Sr., is a Hooverite...
Last week, stowaway Lanier was removed from The City of New York at Colon, Panama, because he is physically unfit for antarctic exploration; he has a police record for disorderly conduct and abusive language...
...important of which was the non-stop transcontinental derby. Col. Arthur Goebel in a Wasp-motored Lockhead-Vega Yankee Doodle was the first to arrive. But he won no prize because he had stopped once to refuel. Even so his time from New York to Los Angeles was a record; 23 hours, 50 minutes. The other entrants in the race had been forced down. Col. William Thaw seriously injured, had said before starting on the race: "I'm fat, I'll bounce...
...Belmont Park six races were run for which money prizes aggregated some 5200,000. One of the five was the Futurity for two-year-olds, in which High Strung set a course record of 1:19 for six and three-quarters furlongs...
...seemed possible that the "record of this conversation'' which Journalist Viereck had preserved had not been preserved quite perfectly. Its major facts were not hard to believe, though it was no doubt a revelation to many scrupulous Ford owners that they were riding about in cars made by a reincarnationist. It was interesting to remember that another, though less famed, meteoric U. S. millionaire, Oil-tycoon Edgar B. Davis, believes in reincarnation. How instructive it would be, many persons reflected, if other tycoons could be persuaded or compelled to give out accurately and truthfully their religious theories...