Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticed that you have listed Portland, Ore., as "The Rose City" (TIME, Jan. 30). This city has maintained that title for some thirty-two years or more. However, without research we know of three other cities which have adopted the slogan of "The City of Roses"-i. e., Little Rock, Ark.; Thomasville, Ga.; and Victoria, Texas...
Bott Advertising Agency Little Rock...
...leading a crew of older termagants to hurl bricks at the Crabapple Mine, injuring Superintendent Tom Willis. But "Red Head Carrie" had fled home to Detroit. A mob of 200 unionists in the Flower Mine district (also near St. Clairsville) rambled down the highway flinging chunks of rock into non-union windows. Out of one window a shotgun blurted answer. Police locked up the shooter for safekeeping. Governor Donahey of Ohio sent word: "The law must be obeyed. If violence continues, troops will be forthcoming, no difference whether the miners or operators are to blame...
...theft. They did the same thing when Marion Talley made her debut two seasons ago at the Metropolitan, and presently the telegrapher's daughter from Kansas City was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did it for. Mary Lewis, the runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week for Grace Moore, onetime musical comedy star, of Hitchy-Koo, Up in the Clouds, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue...
...Tokuji Hayakawa, onetime railway conductor, now builder-operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...