Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight inaccuracy crept into your admirable publication of Aug. 12, p. 59. In mentioning prominent real estate operators you say: "A third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, etc." Frederick Brown is not a native of Russia. He and the undersigned were reared in Karlsbad, the world famous spa in Bohemia now named or rather misnamed Czechoslovakia. Karlsbad has been German for 500 years, despite the fact that the authorities want to force the Check name Karlory-Vary onto the world...
...conclusion permit me to say that Frederick Brown and his charming wife, who is a native American, are persons of culture, have traveled extensively, and despite great wealth are very unassuming. As philanthropists they have a national reputation...
...Texas" Sirs: In describing the Robert E. Lee's race from New Orleans to St. Louis (TIME, Aug. 5) you say that the "Texas" is the pilot house. . . . Every Mississippi steamer has a pilot house but only the larger packets have a Texas. The small packets and tow boats do not have a Texas. The pilot house is built on top of the Texas. The members of the crew are quartered in the Texas on the large packets, leaving the cabin entirely for passengers. On small packets and tow boats the crew are quartered in the cabin. . . . E. CARROLL...
...polar explorer; Lady Grace Drummond Hay, fastidious Hearst voyageuse; Robert Hartman, Hearst photographer; the U. S. Navy's Lieut.-Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, Hearst guest. Their duties were to report the popular and scientific details exclusively for Hearst and associated newspapers. Other passengers and the crew were forbidden to say a word or sell a picture until the Hearst group permitted them to do so. For exclusive news rights, Publisher Hearst paid a secret sum (approximately $200,000). Correspondent Von Wiegand had conceived the flight, arranged details of its stopovers at Tokyo and Los Angeles. He, Sir Hubert and Lady...
Nobody said that in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt rode in a gas buggy, but the papers did say "Roosevelt's display of courage was typical of him." Nonetheless, Detroit was on its way. That year the Olds Motor Works startled the city by announcing a production of 4,000 cars, and that year the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison had his second company, the Henry Ford Automobile Co., fail...