Word: diego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Norman D. ("Tony") Boeckel, 30, third baseman of the Boston National League Baseball Club; in San Diego, from injuries received in an automobile accident...
This gentleman from San Diego has informed a prominent Eastern newspaper that he holds in the hollow of his hand the realization of the superman of Shaw and Wells. In fact he has been holding it there for fifteen years, but no enterprising magnate has had the energy to remove it and put it to work". The recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry...
...Gorgas Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine; told a delegation from the National Motorists' Association, " the motor industry has raised people up and has given them an entirely new outlook on life " ; pressed a telegraph key unveiling milestone marking the western terminus of the Lee Highway at San Diego, Calif.; prepared to receive a snow-white collie for the White House kennels, from Oshkosh, Wis. ; banished Peter Pan, Presidential wire haired fox terrier, until his private secretary, Mr. Clark, could teach the dog not to howl at night; heard that Mrs. Coolidge had accepted a canary from the American...
...months ago seven destroyers, speeding south along the Pacific coast, bound for San Diego, ran ashore 75 miles north of Santa Barbara. Twenty-three men were lost, and $13,000,000 worth of ships. A Court of Inquiry investigated; court martial proceedings are under way against eleven officers. There may be convictions and acquittals. But the lesson of the disaster and the law of the sea were laid down in the report of the Board of Inquiry, written by Rear Admiral William V. Pratt. This report was published last week...
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