Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus opened the Flood Control Conference, called by Mayors Thompson of Chicago, O'Keefe of New Orleans and Miller of St. Louis, but with Mayor Thompson the dominant spirit. Seven U. S. Senators and two Cabinet members (Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War and James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor) were present; so were Mayors from many a Mississippi Valley city; so was onetime U. S. Senator William Lorimer, once barred from the Senate after an investigation of his campaign expenditures; so was many another notable...
...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
...insisted on dogging his path. His third attempt was rewarded with a clear field. Before he could climb out of his plane, the sea of the mob surrounded him-bowling over women, leaving the official reception committee stranded in the distance. Finally, the police succeeded in roping off the Spirit of St. Louis, and Captain Lindbergh was carried by automobile to U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton and Sir Samuel Hoare, British Secretary...
...something better was done at Locarno, it was the operation of the pure chemistry of distillation; the spirit of Locarno was manufactured. Gentlemen, the spirit of Locarno today, at scarcely two years' distance, is extraordinarily discolored [hilarity...
These new gifts, bequeathed with the same spirit of liberality which made these just dedicated buildings possible should be an incentive to the improvement of the Business School's present status. Two years are now employed to teach that which, according to the general conseusus of student opinion, could well be taught in one. The great necessity for the Business School, now that it has an unequalled opportunity for research and is provided with the proper facilities and machinery of organization, is progression--so that the course now offered will be changed from one in which the latter half...