Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailors on the U. S. S. Procyon last week prepared to receive a new commanding officer. From his country home in Rhode Island, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder hurried to the Procyon, off the Pacific Coast, eager to get back into active service after almost two years of penal idleness on the "waiting orders" list...
Sued for Annulment. Thomas M. Gorman, 27, Long Island real estate agent, husband of Mrs. Natalie Guggenheim Gorman, 18; by Edmond A. Guggenheim (her father), copper tycoon, who separated the couple after they married secretly (TIME, April...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney, from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Long Island socialite, poloist, airman; at Reno...
...Mackinac Island, Mich., last week were 2,000 self-supporting women. Members of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, they discussed their problems between speeches and ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator...
...mail planes loop around the Gulf of Mexico and, since last week, shoot down to Chile. Soon he expects them to fly from Panama to Trinidad Island, then to Porto Rico. Then he will have a Gordian knot around the Caribbean Sea which any competitor will have great difficulty to hack apart...