Word: warriorism
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...North American Light & Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Natural Gas, Detroit Edison, United Light & Power, American Water Works. After 1929 the astringent years which wiped out many a man of wealth merely shrank Mr. Williams' fortune from fabulous to big. He retained his 400-ft. yacht, the Warrior; his houses, his leisure for travels almost as continuous as those of his wife, his interest in oceanography which led him to help finance William Beebe's voyages to the Sargasso Sea. From 1929 to 1931 he sold down to a 51% interest in Central States, got between...
Last week General Sherman had South Carolina and Georgia howling again. This time the harsh old warrior was going forth as an engraved image on a harmless new 3? stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon...
...candidate will search out feature material, he will follow the scent that leads to strange places. He may tread close on Colonel Apted's heels as that doughty warrior sets out in pursuit of another skunk. Perhaps the opportunity of seeing the Lampoon's funnymen laying a hoax will come his way. He may see the way a police court functions, or follow the Fire Department in action. He may find that much of the imposing marble statuary that decorates Memorial Hall has come only recently from the graves of men portrayed, in the Mount Auburn Cemetery...
...Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...
Like the poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the scene waving a banner emblazoned with the glorious words: "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the registration and voting in this city has been crooked for years...