Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steelmongers prefer foreign manganese ore. The domestic ore has a low metal content. Of the U. S. consumption, 95% is imported despite higher foreign prices. Last year the U. S. collected $8,065,155 in manganese ore tariffs...
...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...only U. S. company which rivals this British monster of communications is I. T. & T. This company started out to become another A. T. & T., but in foreign parts. It brought together telephone systems in Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Then able Colonel Sosthenes Behn went a step further. He added to I. T. & T. first the All American Cables, then the Mackay System (Postal Telegraph, Commercial Cables, Mackay Radio). Now he does business by telephone, cable and radio in most parts of the world. He has arranged to acquire, if and when Congress permits...
Hardly a U. S. adman reached Europe without his wife. In addition there were some 300 female delegates. So Kate Kleefeld Stresemann, wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering...
What went on was similar to many a pedagogic congress held this summer, every summer. Three hundred papers were read, debated. There were speeches on the Dewey Method, the Dalton Plan, the Winnetka (Ill.) Technique. U. S. delegates compared methods, tried their ability in foreign languages and prepared to be off for more vacation, more conferences. Proudly they postcarded home that they had stood where Hamlet heard his father's ghost, had seen the room where Rosencrantz and Guildenstern told the King that as old student friends of Hamlet they could cure his lunacy...