Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheriffians," U. S. volunteer aviators, fought with the French against Abd-el-Krim until the present torrential rains in the Riff made air warfare impossible until spring (TIME...
...El Liberal (Madrid) commented: "While the new Government is a change from the old in name only, we hope that constitutional parliamentary government will soon return to Spain." El Sol, less sanguine characterized the new régime as "civil-military and transitory." The official communiqués declared: "The public received the news of the political change with approbation...
Temple Emanu-El, famed synagog on the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 43rd St., Manhattan, erected 57 years ago on land which cost $55,000, was sold last week for $7,500,000 to a Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
Premier Paul Painlevé's new fiscal measure, intended to balance the French budget by "a levy on all forms of wealth," (TIME, Nov. 9 el seq.) was got through the Finance Committee of the Chamber last week and presented to the deputies en masse...
Later the Caliph rode on horseback through the streets of Tetuan and muttered a ritual prayer before such of the numberless holy places of the city as were not considered worthy of an actual visit. Before the mosques of Sidi Ali Raisuli, Saidi, and Sidi Mohammed El Hach, he descended from his horse and was elaborately welcomed amid complicated ceremonies during which several bulls were sacrificed. Finally he reviewed the native troops amid much rejoicing...