Word: islands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, even foreigners found it necessary to perform smartly the Fascist salute whenever a band of cheering patriots rushed by carrying a Fascist flag. Dr. Leonard S. Rau, a physician of Lawrence, Long Island, was one of those who imprudently neglected to salute a Fascist banner in Rome. Since the doctor is 65, he was able to make but slight resistance when a Fascist youth knocked off his hat and another struck him with doubled fist upon the temple. Mrs. Rau, with great presence of mind, shrieked "Americano! We are Americanos! AMERICANO!!" Thus appraised of the nature...
...father recovered. She started back for Chicago. In Paris her purse and her permit were stolen, but the U. S. consul at Paris assured her that she would have no trouble re-entering this country. A month ago she arrived on the French liner Paris, was taken to Ellis Island where the Board of Special Inquiry ordered her exclusion. At the request of an agent of the French line, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis ordered her case reopened. Finally last week the board decided that she was the person to whom the. permit to leave and re-enter...
...like that, no longer supple of bone, was taking: long chances, flying with fractures. His hosts led him to a Long Island hospital. There Mr. Montee thanked them, and asked for pen, ink, paper. He would let doctors examine his breakage, yes, but first he must write to Air Chief Patrick for another plane, to carry him on visits to Eastern airdromes, then across the continent, back home...
...Rock Island, Ill., one Beulah Nichols, 16, guzzled gin, entered the bedroom of one W. H. Mahoney, 75; pointed a revolver at him, disrobed, put on Mr. Mahoney's clothes, forced him to cut her hair below a slouch cap, "hopped" a freight train with her "boy friend," rode to Galva, Ill., spent the day, "hopped" another freight train, "bummed" her way home, was received by her parents with open arms. Soon newsgatherers discovered that Beulah Nichols' mother is "Vashti Dale," author of articles for household magazines on "How to Train Girls...
...stern vigilance of Secretary Kellog makes erashing the gate of America practically an impossibility. The Countess Karolyi found that due to her husband's socialistic turn of mind, she could get no nearer New York than Ellis Island. Saklatvaia, the unpronounceable Communist member of the British Parliament, was likewise debarred. And another Countess--in her own eyes more sinned against than sinning--discovered that on occasion moral turpitude could be made an admirable slogan for immigration authorities. The latest guest unwelcome to official United States is Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, whose morals may be as pure as snow but whose politics...