Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President of German descent in the direct line...
...Died. John Jay, 50, Manhattan broker, direct descendant of famed first U. S. Chief Justice John,Jay; of appendicitis; in Hyannis, Mass...
...handle the lanky Texans who ambled into the Citizens National Bank of Ballinger. And when this bank merged with its rival, the First National, and Melvin Traylor became president, he needed as much good banking sense to manage a capital of $200,000 as he needs today to direct a bank with resources of over...
While Cuba was thus preparing for direct, ruthless action, half way measures were again discussed, last week in London, by experts from 24 nations gathered for the International Cancer Conference...
...trans-Atlantic race since 1905 when the Atlantic, skippered by Capt. Charles Barr, won the Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock...