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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Panama. At Campo Lindbergh, the Spirit of St. 'Louis circled overhead and slid to earth. A national holiday. Speeches. Sefiora Guilermo Garcia de Paredes, daughter of President Chiari, gave birth to a boy that morning. Sentiment recommended she name him after the famed guest from Northern skies...
...tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid the highest price?$28,000?that was offered for any single item. This secured them a bust of Madame de Wailly, wife of Charles de Wailly, court architect...
...Spanish whites 950,000, mulattos 300,000, blacks 50,000. The natives elect their own Senate & House and further elect a resident Commissioner who represents them in the U. S. Congress. Island ceded by Spain to U. S. in 1898. At San Juan is the ancient Shrine of Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain...
Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...
Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling...