Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several times a week I place orders with New York firms for goods of perishable nature, and the orders, placed by air mail, are delivered in our receiving room exactly 14 days to a day after the order is mailed. Several days faster than you state, and this service is available daily by Mr. Shoup's Southern Pacific as well as the Santa...
...three hours on end last week President Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sat facing each other in the White House. Solemnly they talked about the progress being made toward another conference on the limitation of naval armaments...
Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week frowned over this cablegram from Havana...
...with the long-standing controversies between Joseph E. Barlow, 67, U. S. citizen, 30 years a resident of Havana, and the Cuban Government. Only too well did he know that Mr. Barlow has been pressing a nine-million-dollar claim which has caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property...
Three hundred thousand square miles is a lot of land. It is six times the size of New York State. It is bigger than Texas, Chile or Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre to every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West...