Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants set up their communistic colony. The father of the heroine, a sly shipowner, when he sees French ships sailing by, attempts to betray his son-in-law's renegade democracy to the royal government; only to discover that it has been decapitated as he too will...
Married. Howard Joseph Sachs, Manhattan banker & director (department stores, realty, silk); to Eleanor Burtis Saxe, staff-member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; on Coates Island, Lake Champlain...
...Frank Thompson, a new launch purchased by the Athletic Association to replace the ill-fated launch which disappeared with two men last spring off Minot's light, purred up to the float at Newell Boat House Tuesday afternoon following a two day trip from Greenport, Long Island...
Horace Mann Towner, governor of the island, hurriedly cabled the War Department: "Full relief and reconstruction will probably reach into millions." Refugees from the rural districts poured into San Juan. Food prices skyrocketed. Eight representative islanders. watching three days pass in aimless water-soaked turmoil, wrote to the governor. "For 72 hours," they stated, "more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief...
William H. Vanderbilt is rather more than likely to be nominated and elected state senator in Rhode Island. The Republican incumbent withdrew and agreed to support Mr. Vanderbilt of Newport...