Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of the frequency with which South American affairs are ignored or involuntarily misrepresented in the North American press, I lave been very pleased to read a kind of " A B C " section devoted to Argentine; Brazil, and Chile, in your Nov. 19 issue...
...Washington luncheon, last week, Dr. Martin addressed 21 ambassadors of Central & South American countries. Panama, he stated, had already donated a site for the proposed half-million dollar Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, where tropical diseases would be studied, remedies devised. The U. S. had already appropriated an annual fund of $50,000 for research & administrative work. Dr. Martin proposed that the 21 Latin-American countries should participate, on a population pro rata basis, in contributing a total of $37,500 annually for the same purposes...
Travelers going south from Indianapolis along the Dixie highway noticed last week, as others did all summer and autumn, uncouth men clamber out of the wooded gullies and ravines of Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal...
...Among them: ¶ The Brothers Fisher of Detroit, owning more common stocks than any other U. S. group, will form a billion-dollar investment trust to hold their securities. In Manhattan, the mighty Bankers Trust Co. will help finance the holding company. ¶ Alfred Emanuel Smith, vacationing in the South (see p. 9), has agreed to head the $50,000,000 bank now being organized by John Jacob Raskob and many another Manhattan capitalist...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...