Word: rotaryism
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¶ Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely...
President Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College, at a Rotary Club conference in Rye, N. Y.: "The ideals of the average American may be summed up in two sentences: 'A full dinner pail' and 'The ability to show a full garbage pail.' "
To a Manhattan Rotary club, War Ace Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was introduced as a winner of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine palms, the Croix de Guerre with four palms, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Snorted Ace Rickenbacker: "It is true that I...
Shinn has designed a rotary engine and an automobile. He won the commission for the enormous murals in Trenton's City Hall by building an eight-foot model of the building, through the windows of which the late John Roebling (wire rope) was delighted to discover a reproduction of...
Honors had already been heaped on Actor Harrison. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates...