Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically crowned him "The Hero of Tacna's Delivery...
Citizens of graftless San Francisco thought back over 25 years, when large in San Francisco's vocabulary was the word Graft, when Fremont Older rose to fame among San Francisco journalists...
Journalistic historians last week looked back to see what manner of newspaper was the Virginia Gazette of colonial times...
...notice of battles, in despatches, letters. When the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Gazette was the only newspaper to print its text in full. With a spurt of news instinct, Editors Dixon and Hunter once announced on the front page: "For London news, see last page." Such back-paging, however, lasted but a short while. Soon Gazette readers were again being entertained by "The Assyrian Practice of Marriage," "Present State of Algiers," "Advices from Petersburg...
Next day he flew back to Lakehurst, the sacks under his eyes less baggy. Train took him to New York where the city gave him a hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...