Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harlan Miller, pet-loving Second Secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, brought into Manhattan last week from the liner Paris his wife & pets: 40 fantail pigeons, 18 Belgian hares, two Mandingo parrots, a Belgian police dog, and a Black Forest (German)) cuckoo...
...Hoover camp, a Problem arose. Should the Candidate, who still is director of the Belgian Relief Commission, go to Belgium to dedicate the restored Louvain Library on July 4? Sentiment, of course, said Yes. But perhaps politics would dictate No. If Hoover should be nominated in June, what about the German vote in November...
...America right, Alfred Loewenstein, wealthy Belgian capitalist recently arrived, bought a ten-passenger Fokker cabin plane last week for $55,000. Arriving in Philadelphia on its first hop, he jumped excitedly from the cockpit, ran so close to one of its three whirring motors that his derby was knocked sideways, sat down to think things over...
According to Professor Wilson's statement, the book reveals the ratio of blacks and whites in Africa as four to one and demonstrates the possibility of future conflicts between the races as the pressure of European immigration increases. All available official documents in South Africa, the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast have been studied by Mr. Buell in the course of his investigation...
...friends, Miss Congo, young female gorilla, passed away last week at the John Ringling estate, Sarasota, Fla. For three years she had lived in the U. S., and although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...