Word: states
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Three state governors will be among those present. They are Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York; Governor W. Tudor Gardiner '14, of Maine; and Governor Frank G. Allen, of Massachusetts, who will attend ex officio, Governor Roosevelt is Chief Marshal of the Alumni and as such will lead the procession to Sever and take an active part in all the exercises. Governor Gardiner will serve as Marshal of his class...
...Sosthenes & Hernand Behn, famed Behn Brothers who have brought International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to its present potent state (TIME, April 8), came last week new conquests in a familiar field...
...many years since "Bolshevik" was a popular synonym for a low, ruffianly fellow and "ruble" was a popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money. But though the U. S. Department of State remains unaware of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U. S. industry is now inclined to believe that Russians habitually pay their bills and that a ruble in the hand is as good as 51½¢ in the bank. Thus last week Amtorg, Russian trading corporation at No. 261 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, announced the following contracts entered into by U. S. corporations with Soviet...
...birdie." Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State championship...
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell...