Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
Because Cristobal Colon (sometimes known as Christoforo Colombo, or Christopher Columbus), son of Domenico Colombo, a wool comber of Genoa, planted his Green Cross and the royal banner of Spain on San Salvador, one twelfth of October, 431 years ago, there will be celebrations throughout this hemisphere next Friday. On that day the Pan-American International Women's Committee will hold conferences in the capitals of practically every Republic of both the Americas...
...Lampy has rambled occasionally from the straight and narrow path, the best of men have their slips. Bunyan's Pilgrim missed his way more than once. Everyone has been certain that the sheep would eventualy return to the fold and everyone will readily forgive the soot on its wool. Even if the circulation does fall off, Lampy can rejoice that it is a cleaner and better sheet...
...Roosevelt started the Progressive party, he said he would rather " quit politics than split his party." On the other hand, he supported President Wilson on the League of Nations issue, denouncing the irreconcilables. He helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate of a child labor amendment?he leaves behind him the memory...
...moving picture performance has been arranged under the auspices of the Industrial Management Department of the Graduate School of Business Administration, to be given at 4.30 o'clock today in Pierce 110. The picture, which is entitled "From Wool to Cloth," will be explained by Mr. Ignatius McNulty, chairman of the Department of Labor of the American Woolen Company. Although the lecture was planned primarily for members of the Business School, it will be open to all members of the University...