Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only frost-free city in the U. S.," the southernmost U. S. port and by 300 miles the nearest U. S. city to Panama, Key West...
Last week the name of James Clement Dunn, long bowed to in Washington, spread through the land. James Clement Dunn, high school graduate, lawyer, Manhattan architect and U. S. Navy lieutenant, entered the State Department after the War. He received assignments to Madrid, Port au Prince, Brussels. Then he went to Washington and it was discovered that he, smooth of hair, chiseled of chin, impeccably attired, was expert at mapping out White House ceremonials. It was he, for example, who lately and finally ranked "the ladies of the land," as follows: Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, Mrs. Chief Justice...
...Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...chief harbor cities of Italy, headed by Genoa, were created "restricted free ports," last week by decree of Dictator Benito Mussolini. The outstanding "free port" of Europe continues Gibraltar -a city of exotic bargains dear to tourists. At the new Italian "restricted free ports" a small duty will have to be paid on only a very few kinds of articles-these "to be announced later." By invitation and command of Signer Mussolini, there was completed, last week, a score for the new Fascist Hymn of Labor. Composer: Pietro Mascagni, creator of the score of Cavalleria Rusticana. Fascist critics cried "solemn...
...factories also at Louisville). The J. L. Mott Iron Works, founded in 1828 at Mott Haven, N. Y. (now part of New York City), was the first U. S. company to make sanitary equipment. Portland Cement. Peerless Portland Cement Co. of Detroit and New Egyptian Portland Cement Co. of Port Huron, Mich., have agreed to consolidate; combined assets...