Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought him wide notice. His elevation to the Commission followed in 1921. The new occupant of the Commission's chair (each man has his turn) is Commissioner Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who dissented vigorously and voluminously from the St. Paul decision, is a product of Amherst and the Massachusetts public service commission. Richard V. Taylor, oldest Commissioner, 68, was once (1921) elected Mayor of Mobile, Ala., where...
...fast as the other three but under the pressure of Olympic competition, might step into the lead. America, however, has unquestionably better material. Wells of Dartmouth and Ring of the New York Athletic Club with Werner of the Illinois Athletic Club and Dye of California can all of them turn in stellar performances, while there is any number of good hurdlers to supplement them...
...imperial majesty, the Shah [of Persia] was to turn the first shovel of earth. At the same hour and minute . . . signals were to be conveyed to the governor generals of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, who, representing the king of kings, were to go through the same ceremony in their respective domains. . . . The date . . . was not an auspicious one because the moon was not in its proper phase and the work was set back two weeks...
Canadian Milk. Directors of the Ottawa Dairy Co. Ltd. formally approved the merger of their company with the Borden Farm Products Co. of Montreal, which is a subsidiary of the Borden Co. The latter interests in turn control the Borden Farm Products Co. in the U. S., and last week they incorporated at Dover, N. J., another corporation-the Borden Milk Products Co. Inc., for $50,000,000. The newest Borden company presumably will act as holding company for the Reid Ice Cream Co. and J. M. Horton Ice Cream Corp., which the ensemble recently purchased...
...participants in this modern "Love's Labour Lost" deserve much sympathy. Experience leads toward wisdom, and wider understanding, no doubt, will be brought about between the sexes at the University of Missouri. While a permanent turning of the tables is hardly to be desired, for the moment, at least, the rest of the university and collegiate world may well turn green with envy...