Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motored to Cedar Rapids. Delegations of Farmers and Farmers' Friends from 14 States* were accorded personal receptions on the wide veranda of "Brucemore," an estate, equipped even to pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within...
...Kellogg chose to go to the American hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, there to call on U. S. Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs James Theodore Marriner of Visitor Kellogg's own Department of State, paver of the Kellogg way into Paris, and shortly after seriously...
...Bedsole-Colvin Co. (Ala.); Churchill Co. (Ill., Iowa, Neb.); Eastern Co. (Mass.); Farrand, Williams & Clark Co. (Mich.); Faxon & Gallagher Co (Mo.); Fuller Morrison Co. (Ill.); Halvan Gorder Co. (O.); Kirk, Geary & Co. (Calif.); Langley Michaels Co. (Calif.); Minneapolis Co. (Minn.); Murray Co (S.C.); Roeber & Kuebler (N.J.); Southern Co. (Tex.); Western Wholesale Co. (Calif., Ariz...
...Andrews came to two important conclusions: 1) That titanotheres, large horned quadrupeds which became extinct in America in the early Oligocene period (geologically fairly recent), lasted for a much longer period in Mongolia; 2) That mastodons were, in the same period, en their way from Africa to Western Europe, Siberia and North America...
Retired. Harry Bates Thayer, chairman of the board of A. T. & T., after 47 years in the service of the Bell System. The first telephone conversation in history* took place only five years before young Thayer went to work for the Western Electric Co. He saw the Bell System's investment increase from $25,000,000 to more than $3,500,000,000. No man will ever fill his place, since grateful A. T. & T. last week discontinued the office of chairman of the board...