Word: diamonded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diamond Match...
Doing the thing in a big way, Nebraskans sent to President Hoover an airmail letter 3 ft. x 2 ft. inviting him to Nebraska's Diamond Jubilee celebration. The President sent regrets, but tens of thousands of other citizens from nearly every State, from Canada, from Alaska, last week journeyed to Omaha to attend Nebraska's three-day 75th birthday party...
...blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate . . . wonderful water...
...part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops to the Union Army during...
...mile on earth," ignoring Wall Street. The King-Emperor himself cannot enter "The City" without the Lord Mayor's permission. Neither can British troops. At any hour of day or night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets...