Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preceding Nominee Smith on the above itinerary went a mass of literature, sent out by the G. 0. P., to show that he had never been regarded by the New York farmers as an especial friend. The chief document was a map showing that, of New York's 57 rural counties (outside New York City) Governor Smith carried only two the first time he was elected, 13 the second time, one the third time, four the fourth time. New York City ("Tammany") was the only area he carried all four times...
...Union ($5), the first such book to appear in English since Baedeker's Russia of 1914. Smart folk will note Moscow's Savoy Hotel, Leningrad's Hotel d' Europe, and that taxis have a fixed tariff in Moscow but must be bargained for in Leningrad. Map fiends will revel in hundreds of renamed towns, and the heretofore seldom seen Russian spelling of the nation's name: Soyus Sotsialisticheskekh Sovietskikh Respublik ("Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"). Tourists will pore over well-thought-out-schedules for "Seeing Moscow in Eight Days" or Leningrad in seven...
...Isaiah Bowman, Col. Claude Hale Birdseye, Samuel W. Boggs, erudite scientists, left for the International Geographic Congress at London with one burning purpose : "To prepare a map of the world with a scale of 16 miles to the inch." Their ship, the Leviathan, celebrated its sixth anniversary crossing...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery...
They promptly went upon record to support a comprehensive advertising program for the six states. It will centre upon a symbol, the map of New England, which looks in silhouette like the head and fore-quarters of a shaggy Irish terrier...