Word: selden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Selden, L. I. Chief Fire Ranger Clarence Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...
Atterbury General Motors Selden...
...motor makers scorned his invention. They preferred the poppet valve system of George B. Selden (1845-1922) of Rochester, even though they had to pay royalties on his alleged basic patents...
Newcomer No. 1. Senator George H. Williams of Missouri was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selden P. Spencer, Republican...
...return to go into training at Plattsburgh. Then he became a Captain in the Fifth Missouri Regiment and went overseas as Major of the 138th Infantry. Twice he was cited for gallantry in action, and he has the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1920 he stood against the late Selden P. Spencer for the Republican Senatorial nomination in Missouri, but lost. The next year President Harding made him a director of the War Finance Corporation, from which he was advanced to Assistant Secretary of War. Since last Spring he has been Acting Secretary of War. His prompt handling...