Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh has already done that. His flight was so chic-it would be useless repetition to follow him. After we get back to France, perhaps we shall plan the East...
...Gambling with the paraphernalia of roulette and baccarat was allowed to be resumed in Italy, last week, but at only one resort, San Remo, which is only 20 miles east of Monte Carlo on the Riviera. When Senator Corrado Ricci interpellated Signor Mussolini, last week, as to why San Remo alone was favored, the Dictator rapped...
...Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time in routing the Mexicans at the battle of San Jacinto and capturing General Santa Anna...
Without official explanation, the Federal Reserve Banks at New York, San Francisco and Minneapolis last week raised their re-discount rates from 3½% to 4%. The Chicago and Richmond banks had done the same the previous week. One effect of the rate changes forecast by financial commentators was that stock market quotations would fall sharply because market operators would find money too expensive to borrow. That did not happen appreciably last week. Another prognostication was that banks would make greater efforts than in the past few months to loan money to commercial and industrial organizations. Nor did that develop...
Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...