Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antiquated by the Chevrolet shift from a Four to a Six, and four million 1923 models of all makes that have rounded out the six years of service after which the average automobile retains no great expectation of life. It is estimated that 15% of U. S. families have two automobiles and 8% have three. Exported automobiles totaled 13.7% of production in 1928, should greatly increase in 1929. Thus the demand for the motorcar remains healthy, and Hoover prosperity is expected to provide the purchase price...
...most seriously to be considered by Cheneys were two problems: 1) overproduction; 2) tariff. Spokesman in both matters is Vice President Horace B. Cheney, who spoke twice last week...
...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
Died. Francis King Murray, 33, of Andover, Mass., instructor at Phillips-Andover Academy, onetime Leland Stanford footballer and trackman, son of Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, leader of the Friends Church in Washington, D. C. (attended by President Hoover); of kidney disease; in Boston. Surviving him are his two famed brothers-Robert Lindley Murray, national tennis champion in 1918, now with Hooker Electrochemical Co. at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; and Frederick ("Feg") Murray, Olympic trackman in 1920, now an able cartoonist and sportswriter on the New York...
Died. Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, 83, one of two English Cardinals,* Librarian of the Vatican; of pneumonia and heart disease; at his residence in the Palace of Saint Calixtus, Rome. Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years...