Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March 4, 1895 and has continued ever since, with the aged Senator still flying vigorously and giving no sign of coming down into the field of private citizenship. This continuous stretch of service has been surpassed by only one U. S. Senator-William Boyd Allison...
Born in Chicago 33 years ago, Editor High took an A.B. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1917, later an S.T.B. from Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...
...announced the U. S. Department of Commerce, presenting fresh statistics concerning the long familiar U. S. domination of the automotive world. Of a world's supply of 32,028,584 motor vehicles (exclusive of motorcycles, motorbobs, buckboards, etc.), 24,629,921 were in the U. S. A poor second was England with 1,128,200, closely followed by France with 1,098,000, and Canada, with 1,061,830. Germany, with 531,000, was fifth...
...Nemours & Co. The du Pont Company owns 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. Last week U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., expanding, planned to purchase the other 50% of Eastern Commercial Alcohol Corp. The purchase was to be made from National Distillers Products Corp., which also controls Kentucky Alcohol Corp., second largest U. S. alcohol company, and Old Time Molasses Co. It was also expected that these two subsidiaries would be included in the sale of Eastern Commercial...
...Birmingham, England, Madge Gunner, governess, complained last week that her first fiancé, a Wartime officer, was killed by a rifle grenade; her second, an aviator, fell to death three days before the wedding; her third, an engineer, was struck by a crane and died; her fourth died two days before the marriage...