Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...
...been the moving spirit in an Association of Catholics Favoring Prohibition. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, began as a movement chiefly among Protestants. The Presbyterian Board of Christian Education joined its potent propagandizing arm (Department of Moral Welfare) with 30 other temperance organizations including the Anti-Saloon League of America. Among those present in Washington last week to organize the all-embracing Co operative Committee were Bishop Thomas Nicholson (president) and Francis Scott McBride (general superintendent) of the Anti-Saloon League; President Ella Alexander Boole of the W. C. T. U.; Chairman (Bishop) James Cannon Jr., of the Board...
...received a marriage proposal from a U. S. swain-by-mail. "No, I am not going to America to look him over...
...cigaret price was that leaf tobacco is more expensive this year. Another suggestion is that the move was originated by the Brothers George Kenan and Frederick Morrow who recently entered the tobacco industry (TIME, Sept. 2) by acquiring control of the United Cigar Stores of America, the Tobacco Products Co. and the Union Tobacco Co. While the Morrows are not identified with the large manufacturers, their position in the distributing end could make their influence mighty. If the raise in the wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places...
Installed by Radio Corporation of America, Stromberg-Carlson Co., Western Electric Co., other radio-wired schools are: Choate School (Wallingford, Conn.), Ossining High School...