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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been for their persistent efforts in improving the production of lamp bulbs in quantity as well as in quality, the incandescent lamp of today would not be such a cheap and perfect article, nor would it be used in such tremendous quantities. F. KRAISSL Corning, N. Y...
Similar independent meetings were held about the same time elsewhere, notably at Friendship, N. Y., May 16, 1854. The first state convention of Republicans met at Jackson, Mich.,* July 6, 1854, the first national convention at Pittsburgh Feb. 22, 1856. Today New York, Ripon, Friendship, Jackson, Pittsburgh all claim to have "founded" the Republican party...
Last week, en route to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow rode from Washington to San Antonio on the same train with Mexican Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, head of the Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as delegate of a Pope who not only is Vicar of Christ but also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said...
Synchronously with the creation of these huge public benefactions, John D. Rockefeller has been building himself a huge private estate at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. And that too brought him into the news last week...
...Charles W. Kennedy, Chairman of the Board of Control of Athletics at Princeton, announced today that the athletic authorities of Princeton and Cornell had invited William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics at Harvard, to serve as referee of the Cornell-Princeton-Oxford-Cambridge track meet at Travers Island, N. Y., on June...