Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover, having paid his respects to the Midwest on his return from Notification (TIME, Sept. 3), and having inspected the work that has been done for him there, was content to leave the region's defense to his Chicago headquarters and to Nominee Curtis, who set out from Washington to criss-cross the trails of Smith and Reed for 5,000 miles. Nominee Hoover gave his own attention to the East. Red fire and amplifiers were in readiness for him at Newark, N. J. His Eastern managers redoubled their efforts in very dubious New York and dubious Massachusetts...
Nominee Smith invited Mr. Barnes to Albany to point out physically and prove legally the existence of the devilish pool. Mr. Barnes wrote back and set a date, Sept, 19. The Nominee replied again and sarcastically regretted that he would be out of Albany then, but recommended Mr. Barnes to the Albany County District Attorney. Again, somehow, this was inconclusive, savoring of defense...
Elements precisely such as these produced a magnificent whizz-smash, last week, when Don Alfonso Cocobo, a Grandee of Spain, set out for Biarritz and ended up in a de luxe private suite at the Hospital of Bayonne...
...capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent as to which company would buy technical control of the other and create a half billion dollar utility merger. Chiefly because of a complicated financial set up United Light and Power, last week, became the buyer. The Koppers (Mellon Associates) and Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland pushed the deal...
Travelairs, Wacos, Cessnas, Moths, Thunderbirds, Lockheeds, Fairchilds, Stinsons, Challengers, Bellancas and a dozen other makes of planes set out last week from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to fly to Los Angeles in the greatest transcontinental air derby ever staged. The power was furnished by Wright Whirlwind, Curtiss O X5, Warner Scarab, Pratt & Whitney, Wasp and many another motor. The pilots were stimulated by prizes totalling $57,500. In three classes, 62 planes hopped off. Stops for the night were made at Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Fort Worth, Tex., El Paso, Tex., Yuma, Ariz...