Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 16, a stock Franklin Sedan driven by Cannon Ball Baker, completed the fastest round-trip ever made by automobile or train between Los Angeles and New York, covering 6,692 miles in 6¼ days. ... On the trip east the time was 74 hours flat. ... On the return trip, the total time was 83 hours and 23 minutes...
...Albany, their legends, "Smith for President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...
After three days of complete rest from the steady drive of the regular practice sessions, the University football squad will return to action on Soldiers Field this afternoon to launch its final drive in preparation for the climatic clash with the Yale bulldog, less than two weeks off. The Crusader contest this Saturday will be an excellent opportunity to set the Crimson gridiron machine in motion once again and oil up the rusty cogs before the biennial journey to the Bowl at New Haven...
...loved while Lillian acted, married (James Rennie, dark-haired "legit" actor) while Lillian stayed single. In the many pictures in which the sisters have appeared together, Dorothy's acting, always accurate, lacked the indefinable distinction of Lillian's. Since leaving pictures in 1922 she has wanted to return to a medium where she could have the advantage of voice. Last week (see below) she appeared in Manhattan in "legit" drama...
British historians, writing of the great post-War recovery, acclaiming the return to the gold standard and the rebuilding of the merchant marine, will deal briefly and reluctantly with the effort to control the rubber markets of the world. The experiment which began Nov. 1, 1922, which ended last week, will be held an economic catastrophe. Hundreds of fortunes were drawn into the maelstrom of its collapse...