Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once a year the President of Mexico gives a state ball at the National Palace and at its height rings the famed "Liberty Bell" of Mexico...
President Plutarco Elias Calles seized the bell rope dutifully at 11 p. m. one night last week. Tugging with might he shouted "Long live Mexico...
Many a, Mexican, standing before the National Palace, pot-valiant and patriotic, throated a lusty cheer. The bell, originally rung in 1810 by the priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores to summon Indians to the subsequently successful revolt against Spain, teetered without squeaking upon its ponderous and newly oiled axis, clanged sonorously...
...back, to win from the Army the Kansas City Rotary Club trophy, over a 120-mi. closed course in a Boeing FB-3, the new type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell Trophy race was an all-Army affair from first to last, for light bombing planes. Lieut. L. M. Wolfe of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio) dashed home first by a wide margin, 120 mi. at 123.71 m.p.h...
...that, if he remains awake until midnight, he may make a long distance call at one-fourth the price of the daytime charge. If he calls between 8:30 p. m. and midnight, the fee is one-half the day rate. That is, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (the Bell System) considers daytime to range from 4:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m., evenings from 8:30 p. m. to midnight, and night from midnight to 4:30 a. m. Thus charge for certain calls from Manhattan...