Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this...
...Ankara, the raw capital built on a rocky hillside by Dictator Kemal after he smashed the Sultanate, perspiring Turks worked furiously to lay a brand new street to the Persian Embassy so that the King of Kings would not be too severely jounced. The last stages of his journey sped him up the Black Sea on a spruce Turkish battle cruiser to Istanbul, then by train to the Turkish capital. Near Easterners quivered with excitement at palavers scheduled for this week, as the two swarthy strong men gripped hands in Ankara, the King of Kings gorgeous in a Persian uniform...
have undergone profound improvements, but the business of putting a new tariff through Congress has remained a log-rolling party. And each party, more drunken than the one before, has built a crazier tariff cabin to house U. S. economic life. In the hope of advancing tariff -making from the iSth to the 20th Century, Congress last week put into President Roosevelt's waiting hands a magnificent set of blue prints authorizing him to act as Contractor-in-Chief of U. S. tariffs...
...rector. Installed as bishop of Portland, Me. in 1901, he did so well that five years later he was made titular archbishop and bishop coadjutor of Boston. Stepping up after the death in 1907 of benign John Joseph Williams, Archbishop O'Connell raised money ably, consolidated charities, built schools and new parishes. In 1911 he was raised to the purple along with the Archbishops of London, Paris, Vienna and New York...
Five taxicabs took all the Latorras to the Exposition grounds last week. Mrs. Latorra keeps two washing machines going for the laundry of the children who live in the 14-room house Mike Latorra built by himself. Said he last week: "If you keep your head up and everybody pulls together, why, the more the merrier and the better chance you've got to get along...