Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest* Dr. M. D. Taylor, county health officer of Aztec, N. M., had written the best definition of a Democrat: "A Democrat is one who believes in the fullest freedom of speech, press and religion, and separation of church and state; laws that bear equally upon all classes, without special privilege or monopolistic advantages; rights of States guaranteed by the Constitution, and less national paternalism...
...season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, breathed its last, and songsters, scenery, dancers and orchestra?enough to fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf...
...Flaming Frontier is one of the pictures which have been and will be advertised with all the super-adjectives at the picture man's command. It is a monster special massed around Custer's last stand. It helps history out by providing a survivor of this noted massacre, providing further a girl for this survivor. It is a very fine, utterly virile western picture that never just gets round to being great...
...latest investigation of the bankruptcy a year ago of the Chicago, Milwaukee Railroad (the St. Paul) opened in Manhattan last week under the presidency of Frederick I. Cox of the Interstate Commerce Commission. For the Commission, Walter L. Fisher of Chicago was special counsel...
...year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor" of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Married...