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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give Esperanto the treatment and rates of a 'clear' language in telegraphic and radio-telegraphic relations, as a practical auxiliary language of international communications side by side with the national languages used, and with this in view calls it to the attention of the organization for communication and transit" (i.e., the International Postal Union). This was no snap judgment, but followed long consideration and debate. The vote was noteworthy, affirmative 14, negative 9. In favor were garia, Chekoslovakia, China, Finnland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Holland, Norway. New Zealand, and Rumania. A recommendation that all nations of the League put Esperanto into...
...will be only a temporary milestone. In 1926, a bridge will be completed across the Delaware from Philadelphia to Camden, whose main span is to be 120 ft. longer. Sic transit gloria longitudinis...
...rickshaw has departed from the streets of Shantung. In its place came the pedicab-a rickshaw with a bicycle attachment. In order that this "improved" form of rickshaw transit shall in every way be superior to the old, the pedicab company has provided that the driver must bathe regularly, must not eat garlic, must wear a uniform...
Into the U. S. came General Plutarco Elias Calles (pronounced KaiYez) President-elect of Mexico in transit for a steamer which carried him away to Europe for a vacation...
...could no longer endure the mistreatment of her stepmother, Jennie said, and so she took $1.63 from her toy bank and was appointed Secretary of the Transit Commission after an acrimonious debate on the part that women will play in the national election. Conservative estimates placed the damage at $10,000. At the hospital the victim said his attention had been called to the assault shortly after the gangster had shot him down...