Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half an hour I engaged him, provided that a few of the many references he offered proved to be bona fide and that his jail record showed no more than the average number of commitments...
...summary received with the list reveals the fact that the total number of Etonians who served in the War was 5,703, and that the total number of deaths numbered 1,157, not far from one in five. The Harvard record of one in nearly 30 draws a contrast between the meaning of the war in England and America. The cut pictured above appears in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...made his desire to stay evident in a hundred ways, and nowhere more plainly than in his conferences with the correspondents. He wants it but he doesn't want to fight for it-and he won't. . . . In the whole of his political career there is no record of a fight." After listing the usual assets which President Coolidge might have in a third term campaign, Mr. Kent expanded on the negative arguments: "Should he get another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation that Washington...
...balance of power should influence the choice of Federal commissioners; he was a onetime lawyer for the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and hence would be biased in important decisions now pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission; he was manager of the Pepper-Fisher primary campaign last spring, with its slush record...
...Steel Record. Last week at Furnace No. 6 of the Carnegie Steel plant at Duquesne, Pa., there was surcease of work. Men and officials hurried about, grinned, shook hands with one another, for they had established a new record of pouring steel. In 24 hours their furnace yielded 1,035 tons, better by 22 tons than the previous record, long held by the Thomson works at Braddock...