Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge attended a luncheon given by the Girl Scouts at "Little House," scout headquarters in Washington. The pièce de resistance was a Vermont turkey, raised, transported, cooked and served by Leona Baldwin, 13, scout of Montpelier, Vt., who afterwards wept in excitement...
During the week some excitement was caused by the movement of a Turkish force across part of the French mandated territory and into the Mosul region. Under the Treaty of Angora between France and Turkey, however, such movements of troops are sanctioned under certain restrictions, which were apparently not violated in this case...
...declare that the Constituent Assembly is expected to be convened within a month. It is regarded as certain that Reza Kahn will then be elected to head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...
...being ingenuously shocking and satirically humorous. Idwal Jones' chapter on the guerilla artists of San Francisco's old Barbary Coast is one of the best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts...
...denied that a Turko-British crisis is impending, declaring that Britain is still willing to arbitrate the question of whether Iraq or Turkey shall eventually possess Mosul, indicated that he believes the League of Nations and the Hague Court will be able to induce Turkey to fulfill the obligation which Englishmen consider she assumed at Brussels last October...