Word: lebanons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said President John Emmet Edgerton of Lebanon, Tenn.: "Bankers are not worrying since they own the country body and souL Importers, merchants, all are having a picnic enjoying the country's 'prosperity' except those by whose enterprise the wealth of the nation is produced." He meant the manufacturers...
...tell a story (see POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House and given Distinguished Flying Crosses for the flight to Hawaii; Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court (again), with the eight associate justices...
Though the territory of Great Lebanon was proclaimed a state in 1920, it lies within the French League Mandate over Syria and has only recently been granted a modicum of autonomy...
Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...
...What is the capital of the Republic of Great Lebanon...