Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biggest Cooperative. Last week at Memphis the Federal Farm Board laid foundations for the world's largest farm cooperative-a $30,000,000 cotton sales organization built around the American Cotton Growers Exchange. Into the national agency will be merged the cotton cooperatives of 15 states. Critic Lowden. To a meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation last week Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois and "farmers' friend," addressed these words: "If there has been any substantial change for the better in the general farm situation since last year, it has escaped my notice. ... It is unfortunate...
First and only Captain of the Ambrose is squint-eyed Gustav A. Lange, who has been at sea from cabin boy to master, for 43 years. Said he in German-American gutturals last week: "Vell, it brings home a mile closer to these inbound ships now ve are moved...
...cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...
Senora Sarafina Gomez, comely wife of Mayor Miguel Mariana Gomez of Havana, visiting Manhattan with her husband, said of her town: "We have more good American tourists than bad ones...
Warily hockey followers appraised the teams of the American and International sections of the League, trying to figure out which two teams may play off for the world's championship next spring...