Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Edison Electric Illuminating Co. was formed in 1884 to introduce electric lighting in New York City, young Banker Adams went on its board of directors as a matter of course. Equally as a matter of course he left it in 1889-when he entered a sphere of activity more significant even than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
...suddenly as Samuel Insull's power interests came into the investigation, they went out, when Charles O'Malley, Boston advertising agent referred to in Carberry's letter, testified he had not mentioned Insull to Carberry; had mentioned, instead, two Manhattan brokers, one Campion, one Colloran, who wanted to buy the Post for "other interests...
...convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, went last week to squelch a conference of policy game promoters, scuffled with a large Negro, wrested a revolver from his hand...
...Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson learned that their son, Melvin, who was in a hospital, had died of scarlet fever. Mrs. Anderson fainted. Later the parents went to the O. V. Mast Undertaking Co., but were not allowed to see the body because of the danger of contagion. As they prepared for the funeral, the undertaker sent word that the hospital had erred, that another Anderson-named child had died, not Melvin. Mrs. Anderson fainted again...