Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tunney pounded the bag or jogged over the hills. One day Louis Fink, Tunney's manager, slipped over to Dempsey's camp and watched the champion deal briskly with his four sparring partners- Robert Delfino, South American heavyweight, James Saxon, middleweight, James Brown, Negro middle-weight from Panama, Philip Weisberg, heavyweight from Brooklyn. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's one-time manager, attached the Dempsey Rolls-Royce for sums which he declared stood owing. Then from Manhattan came a surprising announcement. Tex Rickard, foreseeing nothing but litigation in New York State, changed the place to Philadelphia...
...Huff-Daland Airplanes Inc. Bigger, stronger, all-metal, it was one of many new types of bombing planes that are abuilding in various shops for the Army Air Service, in competition to succeed the Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about 100. The Cyclops is a monster many times as formidable, many times as agile as its fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread and a 13-ft "gap" (between her two wings) she will be driven by her single...
...Britisher in a blue suit and a wide-brimmed panama hat tore screaming along the ship's rail- leapt, climbed, jostled dignified bankers, evaded pursuit. "Mon-key!" "Monkey!" screamed passengers. "MONKEY!" The Hon. John Jacob Astor ran to his mother, clambered into her lap. He is aged seven. Last week photographers snapped busily Lady Nancy Astor, onetime Virginia beauty, first woman member of the British Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John...
...public is not dependent upon the Department of State for information as to its foreign relations. A synopsis of the U. S.- Panama treaty was given out by the Panama Government at Balboa immediately upon its being signed...
Bunching at the turn, widening along the fence, looping down past the grandstand they came, entries in last week's revival (in Chicago) of the American Derby, one-time "classic." A florid gentleman in a Panama looked benignly at the scene. He was Colonel E. R. Bradley of Lexington, Ky., owner of a brown horse named Boot to Boot, whose jockey, working his legs like a frog, drew under the wire, a winner by two lengths. The race put $89,000 in Colonel Bradley's pocket, was the fifth derby his stable has taken this year...