Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore Roosevelt telegraphed: "All good American citizens feel that...
Maison Blanche (New Orleans) P B Wanamaker's (Philadelphia) .... B P The White House (San Francisco...
Some 15 years ago a small Italian, Gallo his last name and Fortune his first, took a ragged opera company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been...
...suggestion that the memorial include a replica of the tree as it appeared a few years before its removal, a replica to be similar to work done by Dionecio Rodriquez of Mexico City, who has reproduced oak and cedar trees in cement for the park departments of Houston and San Antonio, Texas...
...Pont. "I want to fly as long as I can and die like a gentleman." So said Alexis Felix du Pont, son of the vice president of the du Pont de Nemours & Co., who entrained last week for San Antonio, Tex., to begin service in the army air service as a cadet...