Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant entered the Naval Academy in 1897 and served as a Midshipman in the Cuban Blockading Squadron in 1898. In 1904 he commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters...
Commentators saw in the St. Lawrence transaction a Mellon-Morgan alliance, quickly created a super-superpower project by linking the Mellon-Pennsylvania properties, the Morgan-New York properties, and adding Manhattan's New York Edison and Consolidated Gas for good measure. It was also rumored that Niagara-Hudson was negotiating with Stone & Webster for Eastern Utilities Associates, a group of light and power companies operating chiefly in New England. Out of all the rumors and rumbles, however, salient emerging points were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That...
Sixty years ago Clothesman Rosenberg's father Herman founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt...
...delivery flight from Detroit to Lakehurst last week the metalclad dirigible ZMC-2 (TIME, Sept. 2) scared a team of horses at Kingston, N. J. The runaways threw their driver, one Calvin Petty, from his seat and dragged him. Dirigible Capt. William E. Kepner and his crew of two saw the accident, lowered their ship over St. Joseph...