Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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By presidential decree the holiday was Peru's "Day of Joy." Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President...
The situation was worth conversation. As rotten as San Francisco's politics were San Francisco's turn-of-the-century newspapers. To gain an end editors stopped at nothing. A typical incident: at 1 p. m. one day the city editor of William Randolph Hearst's morning Examiner told one...
Advertisements. Mr. Parkes obtained few advertisements for his Gazette. They were mostly for sales of plantations, "for money or tobacco, very cheap . . . containing 200 acres of good Land, with a good bearing young Orchard, of Variety of Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he...
¶ At the takeoff from Mines Field, Los Angeles, among the celebrities present were Publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose $200,000 for exclusive reporting rights made the world flight possible at this time, and pert Cinemactress Marion Davies, Hearst friend. A radio announcer saw them together and to the listening...
¶ Unless he be a manager of a major sport, or hold an important office on a publication, no undergraduate may have a telephone in his dormitory room. To the few Yale telephone owners, a telephone is said to be a nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take...