Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Trunk of the Order of Elephants produced a new ballad last week. Thirty-four years ago when he was selling hats in Manhattan he wrote the ballad now used for Brown Derby parades. Its chorus...
...Grand Trunk is James W. Blake, benign-looking, round-faced man who wears eyeglasses. His Order of the Elephants, which he founded, tries to spread happiness among business men. The only requirement for membership is to keep smiling. Lodges are called "tusks...
Died. Jewell, 97, elephant, for 40 years (1838-78) a Barnum & Bailey trouper until his attacks of "temperament" made touring dangerous; by his keeper's shot, paralysis of the trunk having developed; at the Central Park Zoo, Manhattan...
...Some members of the board of governors of The Apparel Mart Association are: Alfred Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice president; A. R. Clas is secretary and treasurer...
...Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line? Magnates pondered...