Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential decree the holiday was Peru's "Day of Joy." Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically...
Boston's seizures were different from prior ones only in that Boston newspapers were specially informed. They scare-headed their reports and other coastal papers imitated them. Credit for the Federal action was claimed by Dr. Allan Winter Rowe of Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and by Importer Ambruster of ergot fame...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...
...Flury had released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President is entitled to the same courtesy that is universally accorded between ladies and gentlemen...
...Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooning, blond, Yale-graduated orchestra leader and radio idol (WEAF) was arrested for speeding on Manhattan Bridge. To the patrolman who reported him came many a letter and telephone call from indignant females of all ages...