Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment...
...erected along the Chicago River and partly in the air rights of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The height will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers in Washington, Chicago, Manhattan, Cleveland, London...
...purpose of this giant, as explained by its name, is to provide a central and all-inclusive capital for U. S. makers of clothes. Some members of the board of governors of The Apparel Mart Association are: Alfred Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice...
...accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child was named...
...stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...