Word: sol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spanish policemen beat twelve citizens insensible in Madrid's octagonal Puerto, del Sol (Sun "Square") one day last week. The twelve had shouted, "Down with the Church...
High points of the current issue: a satirical sketch of Representative Sol Bloom of New York who "allows George [Washington] to share in his publicity stunts'' as director of the George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission; an assault upon President Hoover's Unemployment policy as "a food dole substituted for a money dole"; description of Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson's bewilderment when President Hoover curtailed the duck-shooting season: "What do you know about that guy! He must think that ducks vote in Illinois...
...Junkers monoplane which once belonged to Charles A. Levine. three airmen took off from Juncal do Sol, near Lisbon last week to try the "uphill" route across the Atlantic, which only Coste & Bellonte have completed nonstop. The flyers were Willy Rody, a German who had spent his inheritance on the plane; Christian Johanssen, a German-naturalized Dane; and Fernando Costa Viega, Portuguese sportsman. Their plane, christened the Esa for Rody's bride, reached the Azores, headed out over the Great Circle course towards Newfoundland...
Into President Hoover's office one day last week marched short Representative Sol Bloom of Manhattan, oldtime music publisher, theatre owner and now a director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Beside him marched beaming, grey-haired George Michael Cohan, famed flagwaving actor, producer and songwriter. After presenting Mr. Cohan to the President. Congressman Bloom elaborately explained that the author of "Over There" had composed a new song to be used officially by the commission for its nation-wide celebrations next year. Declared Mr. Cohan: "The name of my song, Mr. President, is 'Father of the Land...
This charge alludes to the fact that large cotton, sugar and oil interests in Peru prefer to pay their native help in a depreciated currency, selling their produce abroad for gold. But if the sol is now firmly stabilized on gold, Peru's public will bless Dr. Kemmerer at some future date...