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Word: rivers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Joseph Holland, of Fall River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 NOMINATED FOR JANUARY ELECTION TO 1932 POSITIONS | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Before going off to War, Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hurley of War | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

President Hoover recommended increased appropriations for the foreign service, Prohibition, law enforcement, river & harbor improvements, care of Indians, forest protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget in Green | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Cone-Car Corp. Inland towns that have no talking cinema entertainment, nor any river to bring showboats, may soon be seeing and hearing pictures shown in theatre cars operated by Interstate Cone-Car Corp. Besides entertaining ruralists, Cone-Car will give performances on trains en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet, Please | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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