Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field...
Another possible close-in airport is Governor's Island, the army post in New York Bay. Last week the Senate and House conferees on the War Department appropriation bill agreed to prevent construction of army barracks on a bare area of the island...
...Monte Carlo, onetime actress and "toast of two continents"; of influenza; in Monte Carlo. Her real name was Emelie Charlotte ("Lillie") Le Breton. She was born in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, the daughter of the very Reverend Dean of the Isle. She had six brothers. To the island, in a tempest, came Irish yachtsman Edward Langtry, son of a Belfast ship-merchant. He was offered refuge with the Le Bretons, fell in love with the gloriously budding daughter, married her two years later, took her to London. There, in her 20's, she neglected Husband Langtry for social...
...Loring Black, a smart sensationalist, attacked the Reserve Board for alleged connivance with Great Britain. He argued that if England needed gold it ought not induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions are naval bases that threaten U. S. security. Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways & Means Committee, thought that anti-speculative legislation was a "far-reaching" matter that ought to be "carefully considered...
Wall Street's Prall. Meanwhile the Representative in whose district Wall Street itself is located said nothing at all. It is from the nonfinancial stretches of Staten Island that this Representative comes. He is Anning S. Prall, a perky, bright-eyed, chest-forward Tammany Democrat. The Manhattan financial section chances to be in Mr. Prall's Eleventh District, but skyscrapers do not vote and Mr. Prall does not "represent" Wall Street any more than he represents the Statue of Liberty which is also within his constituency...