Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Barnes new assignment is considered one of the "prize assignments" of the Navy. He came to Harvard from the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. Previous to that, he was on the cruiser Raleigh...
...about that at the same time as the abolition of a nuisance of ten years standing, the greatest consolidation in the history of motors was completed. The latter is doubtless of more ultimate importance than is the small cut in automobile prices made possible by the removal of the war tax. The advantages of merging in business have been put to a long enough test so that now there is no general cry of a populace fearing control by the trusts whenever such an important transaction occurs: the Big Stick was buried in the distant past, and the present sees...
...moment, however, the reduction of prices, or rather, the act making it possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators, war...
Fred Harvey, polo player, War aviator, young Harvard graduate, largely responsible for the building of an airport in Kansas City. He is son of Ford F. Harvey, who is president of the firm that runs the Santa Fe dining cars and 24 hotels, 41 restaurants, 54 lunchrooms along the Santa Fe route. The original Fred Harvey, now dead, father of Ford F., began business in 1876 in a shed of a depot at Topeka, Kan. His succulent chicken and his eye-easy waitresses quickly made him the Cesar Ritz of the Southwest...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...