Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like almost everything he does, Secretary Wilbur's ordering of Marines last week aroused criticism. Why had adequate reinforcements not been kept ready somewhere near Nicaragua? Of the 1,400 men embarking, 500 were at San Diego, Calif.; the rest had to be collected from Charleston, S. C., Hampton Roads, Va., Philadelphia and even Brooklyn. Congressmen agitated the broader question of whether or not "war" existed and was justified in Nicaragua. Defenders of the Administration sidetracked embarrassing resolutions (see THE CONGRESS). But Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn...
...San Jose, Costa Rica. For two weeks, grunting laborers worked at Sabana, normally a cattle pasture for the poorest farmers, smoothing it out for Col. Lindbergh's landing wheels. A special stamp issue was prepared; the government decreed free railway rides for all who wished to welcome the flyer. President Ricardo Jiminez described him as "created expressly by the Supreme Power for marvelous flights . . . exalts the airplane and consecrates it anew." He hovered over Sabana, swooped three times and circled; finally dropped a note that he could not land until police cleared the pasture. They did. The Spirit...
Cincinnati, January 17-19. Louisville, January 19-21. St. Louis, January 23-24. Kansas City, January 25-26. Denver, January 28-30. Salt Lake City, January 31-February 1. Los Angeles, San Diego and Pasadena, February 2-6. Santa Barbara and Ojai, February 7-9. San Francisco, February 10-11. Honolulu, February 15-24. Seattle, March 5-6. Portland, Ore., March 7-8. Spokane, March 9-10. Minne apolis and St. Paul. March 12-14. Mil waukee, March...
...field of romantic movies "Old San Francisco" starring Dolores Costello at the Metropolitan is far from the head of the list. If one is in an uncritical mood and merely wishes relaxation this fantastic story of San Francisco's underworld before the earthquake provides an amusing evening's entertainment...
Died. Gavin McNab, 58, onetime hotel clerk, then lawyer, prominent Democratic leader of California, legal adviser to Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny, Jack Dempsey, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, Mary Pickford; suddenly, in San Francisco...