Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death. "My own participation was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
Englishmen were asking one another earnestly last week-as Englishmen will- "Why should not Palestine become the Seventh Dominion of the British Crown?" Specifically this question was asked, in a large and lofty way, by several M. P.'s of each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke...
Every soldier knows the strategic reasons why the Empire "must" keep Palestine, but the mission of the Seventh Dominion League will be to acquaint civilians with the business reasons. The best of these may be summed up in an arresting name - Pinchas Rutenberg...
...develop enterprises dependent upon electric power. By the time Great Britain's mandate over Palestine expires, it is quite possible that Pinchas Rutenberg will have developed a vertical and horizontal trust so vast that the only way of adequately protecting the capital involved will be to create the Seventh Dominion. Certainly the degraded and impoverished natives of Palestine, who would be raised up to "Rutenberg prosperity" during such a process, might be expected to identify the hand of Pinchas Rutenberg with that of Providence...