Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answered the call to the Coolidge Camp during the summer. Among them: Edsel Ford (autos, airplanes), Harvey Firestone Jr. (tires), Patrick E. Crowley (railroads), Julius Rosenwald (mail orders), A. J. Brosseau (trucks). The statements of these and other magnates concerning the undeniable prosperity of the country have received wide publicity because made in connection with a visit to White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take active part in the November Congressional campaigns, that prosperity...
...saintly youth did go away, went to Rome where he entered the Society of Jesus in 1567 and died within a year of a chest* affliction. All Poland acclaimed the virtues of Stanislas, and in 1605 the Pope recognized the youth's wide popularity, gave him a niche among the Church's galaxy of saints...
...hard and long in making a new product, "cast steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
Sprucely habited in white yachting flannels, II Duce took the tiller. Throughout the week he sailed, fished, occasionally donned his bathing suit, leaned from the prow, a wide-eyed, hirsute figurehead...
...glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings to the first Congresswoman of the old commonwealth." There was joy in the Langley home in Pikeville. A wide-eyed, little girl and a strapping, handsome-though-freckled lad in his teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told...