Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, been cold. He pocket-vetoed a Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most potent public utility privateer of them...
Last week, the best public linksters met on the Cobbs Creek course, Philadelphia. Police Lieut. Samuel Graham, muscular Pittsburgher, won the qualifying medal and was put out in the second round by a left-handed carpenter from Washington. But Carl F. Kauffmann, 32, dour-faced clerk, also of Pittsburgh, retained the championship which he won last year by defeating Philip Ogden of Cleveland in the finals...
...Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...
Married. Amelia Vauclain, granddaughter of President Samuel V. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive works; and Francis Tatnal of Germantown, Pa.; in Bryn Mawr...
...Like the soap works at Port Sunlight, the tire factories at Akron, Ohio, must be served. From one source or another, an unending supply of rubber must pour into the plant of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Angry at the cost of obtaining it from one source (British), Harvey Samuel Firestone determined to get it from another. Said he: "Americans Should Produce Their Own Rubber." Thus U. S. industrialism went to Africa, in the person of white-belmeted, soft-spoken Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr.. with engineers, chemists, physicians, builders. The Firestones chose Liberia for the first all-American rubber...