Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monterey, Calif...
...Angeles, Calif...
...week the White House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...
Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...