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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Washington, D. C., the State Department reaffirmed its inflexible purpose to supervise a "fair" election in Nicaragua. Jurists opined that both the Constitution and Chamber of Deputies of Nicaragua might possibly be circumvented by having President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (a U. S. puppet) authorize U. S. supervision of the election by Presidential decree, after the Chamber has risen...
Dark, not unattractive, graceful, habitually well-gowned and bejeweled, Miss Mackay was the envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs...
Automobile Dealer D. E. McDaneld, aged 48, of Pasadena, Cal.; he learned to fly at 45 and now goes to business...
...beautiful girls with too many clothes on, flocks of toe dancers who caper around the stage in wide skirts and bonnets. Equipped with dusters, they would look as if they had just jumped out of a can of glorified Dutch Cleanser. There is also a plot about Messrs. D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos; they are serving the King of France to the best of their ability and making love to ladies. D'Artagnan himself makes a trip to England, to bring back a piece of jewelry that the Queen of France has given to the Duke...
Died. Melton D. Bryant, 52, philanthropist, brother-in-law of Henry Ford, member of the Michigan State Legislature since 1924; of heart disease; in Traverse City, Mich...