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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Story. When they sailed, Fran knew what she wanted−romance, and a luxurious orgy of aristocracy, after the mediocrity of Zenith; but Sam only knew that he'd like to see the land of his ancestors, inspect the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants; then, refreshed, rush home to work at a motor caravan idea for campers, or a residential section for Zenith that should be guiltless of Tudor castles and Swiss chateaux...
...then, on Tuesday, March 26, came the biggest stock market crash in Coolidge-Hoover history (see...
Disturbed was Artist Kent at this discrimination; insulted was he by further developments. For Marcus & Co. instructed Harvard to divide its award by sending a $500 check to Mr. Kent and a $500 check to Mr. Hammarstrom. Mr. Kent promptly returned the $500. Said he: "I cannot see that Mr. Hammarstrom is entitled to any recognition whatsoever." Thereupon Mr. Marcus announced that the entire $1,000 was really the property of Marcus & Co. and that Mr. Kent had been sent his $500 "purely as a courtesy." Both checks were returned to Harvard with instructions to make out a single...
...Penn system during the 50 years in which Mr. Rea was associated with it. He began as a rodman in 1871, at a time when the Penn road had hardly outgrown its original (1846) charter which provided that it should extend from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Not only did he see the road pass through the greater part of the expansion which has made it a 12,000-mile system, but it was directly through his efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City to Manhattan. When other roads refused...
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant...