Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Burns is at present connected with Chicago University from which he has made a hurried trip to come here. He is an important member of the International Labor Organization at Geneva and was prominent for his work on reconstruction after the World War. He is the author of "Philosophy and Labour" and "Government and Industry...
...poem deal with the adventures of the spirits of Raleigh, Drake, and other explorers, voyaging among the stars in the period following the World War. The reading will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the discoveries of modern astronomy. It will be open to the public...
Louis Wiley, business manager, has been with Mr. Ochs's Times since its beginning. Carr V. Van Anda was managing editor through the paper's Great War days. He still holds the title but is virtually retired, reputed to be enormously rich, chiefly from stock ownership in the paper. Frederick T. Birchall, long with the Times, is acting managing editor. David H. Joseph, city editor, up from Kentucky, has given nearly 20 years to the paper. Beginning as police reporter, he now commands some 250 pairs of eyes and ears...
Natural Art and Fine Art met, last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...
...Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings...