Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight in the District of Columbia jail & asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
...Francis Scott Key, a prisoner aboard a British ship, scribbled hastily: "Oh! say, can you see. . . ." Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...
Baltimore's Aviation. Baltimore at her 100th anniversary (1829) fell in step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane...
...success as a diplomat and found the Saturday Evening Post two hundred years ago, would probably be broad minded enough not to be surprised at the most advanced developments of our scientific age. All these achievements are claimed for Benjamin Franklin by the descendant of his periodical in its 200th anniversary number. But it is probable that even he would have been incredulous if he had been told that in the twentieth century his immortality would depend not so much on his achievements as patriot and scientist but for the little weekly he founded for his neighbors in William Penn...
...Chapel. Dr. Burk worked hard for 17 years. A few weeks ago he announced that ground for the $10,000,000 National Washington Memorial Church will be broken on Feb. 22; if the work moves forward as it should, the Church will be finished in 1932, on the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth...