Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assure U. S. buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York, the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Italy in San Francisco...
From the Lesser to the Greater Antilles the flyer took the tiniest hop of his trip. San Juan, Porto Rico was only 90 miles away. Col. Lindbergh doubled the distance by flying out of his way in a sharp arc to give natives of St. Croix Island a glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia...
...from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
California. With President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co., Manhattan, among her full complement of passengers, the new Panama-Pacific Liner California (TIME, Jan. 30) left New York last week on her maiden voyage to San Francisco...
...melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla's sight are Iowa, the state universities, the hotels, the promptly-answered telephones, and San Francisco, "tilted city." Most pleasing are U. S. Pullman Porters, to whom, as "charming guardians," he dedicates his book, an occasionally ironical work of affection and romantic wonder...