Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year periodical announcements appeared of previously obscure persons who rose to merited fame and prominence by excellence in such arts as calling pigs and eating pan cakes. What seems to be the most recent addition to the number of domestic accomplishments by which glory may be achieved is that of husband-calling. A worthy matron from somewhere west of Boston has recently reached the limelight through her ability to enunciate, with whatever inflection of firmness of fervency is appropriate, the word "Albert...
Saying that he hoped to see the royal regime re-established before his death, Count Albert Apponyi, (pronounced Ar'-pan-yee) 81, Grand Old Man of Hungary, said to pressmen at Geneva...
...again surpassed Mexico (5,-290,807 barrels against slightly more than 5,000,000 barrels) definitely ranked Venezuela as the third largest oil yielding country, exceeded only by the U. S. and Russia. The largest U. S. corporation working Venezuelan fields is the Lago Oil & Transport Co. (subsidiary of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.); larger than Lago is Venezuelan Oil Concessions Ltd. (subsidiary of Royal Dutch). Distance from Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, to U. S. Atlantic coast ports is 1,500 miles; from Tampico, Mexico, 1,900 miles...
...significant deposit items were recorded last week by the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The deposits were to the credit of the Treasurer of the U. S.: from the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., $11,092,264.82; from the Pan American Petroleum Co., $1,920,886.94? Total...
...means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism, as that term is usually conceived-I want none of it. If it be conceived in a spirit of responsibility to high American ideals and standards, I want...