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That members will pay out approximately seven gold dollars daily, for four meals, for lodging on the Mount of Olives, near the Brook Kedron, and for all necessary gratuities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Going to Jerusalem | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...ruled for nine years. His palace of Sans Souci had a brook that ran under it to cool the rooms. He imported two ladies from Philadelphia to take care of his children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: King Christophe | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...ROGER BROOK TANEY was Attorney General, and not William M. Evarts or Harry M. Dougherty or Harlan F. Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: All-Star | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Ade, 65, brother of Author George Ade; at Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...Edward William Sexton of Winchester; for vice-president, William Temple Emmet of New York City. Thomas Gaunt Moore of St. Louis, Mo., and James Luther Reld of Somerville; for treasurer John Parkinson Jr. of Charles River Village, Henry Frederick Schwarz of Greenwich, Conn, and William Sterling Youngman Jr of Brook line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 NOMINATES OFFICERS | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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