Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...iron worker on the dizzy girders. He was a millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which...
Among those officiating were Dr. Samuel A. Elliot, Senator William E. Borah, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who brought greetings from the Federal Council of Churches...
...have by no means been silenced. Basil M. Manly, LaFollette disciple and mouthpiece, and director of the People's Legislative Service in Washington, last week attempted to revive the old attack on the General Electric Co. as a monopoly in the manufacture and distribution of electric light bulbs. Samuel Untermeyer started the assault with a letter to Mr. Manly on the subject, which the latter made public. The Manhattan lawyer asserted that the General Electric Co. had been allowed to escape prosecution on alleged criminal and civil charges made against it by the Lockwood Committee of the New York...
Echoes of a perennial controversy furnish the answer. Samuel P. Langley, builder of the first airplane, died, brokenhearted, shortly after the Wrights' first flights; his own attempt to fly had failed some time previously. But it failed, many experts have thought, because Langley tried to have the flight made from a houseboat on the Potomac without provision for a suitable length of run for getaway, and not because his device was inherently deficient...