Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Northwest Bancorporation acquired six new banks. Total banks in the group became 76, with combined resources of more than $440,000,000. Capital stock of Northwest Bancorporation will be increased from $75,000,000 to $300,000,000 and 150,000 shares offered to stockholders...
Sentimental editors wrote retorts in which they pretended that reporting is such a fine art they would just as soon have pursued it all their lives. They derided the fact that of Columbia's 26 graduate journalists last year, six at once became press agents...
...Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary...
...after candidates for Lynn's mayoralty had filed their papers, normal newspapers reported that the candidates numbered six. But the Enwright Telegram-News headlined: "Five Seeking Bauer's* Seat." This was neither a scoop for the Telegram-News nor an omission of ignorance. The omitted candidate was Lynn M. Ranger, president of the Lynn City Council. In 1927, when Mayor Curley jailed him, Publisher Enwright received a letter from Mr. Ranger alleging an Enwright "plot to defeat decent government." Result: Mr. Ranger's name is never printed in Mr. Enwright's newspaper...
...into a 13 to 0 lead in the first half and then snatched almost certain victory from the powerful Cagle-led combination. Pregame reports indicated that the Army line was weak, but the Gold forwards outrushed the Crimson wall, bottling up the University running plays time and again. With six men in the line and two men backing it up closely, the West Pointers smashed the heralded Harvard laterals, but it was the threat of this play which made the Crimson aerials go. Twelve forwards were hurled and seven were completed for a total gain of 168 yards...