Word: vera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Vera Hale, direct descendant of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, famed soldier; to George D. Pratt, President of the American Forestry Association and Treasurer of the Boy Scouts of America...
...City and State of Vera Cruz sent a joint claim to the Federal Government at Mexico City requesting collection from the U. S. Government of 1,645,000 pesos ($822,500) for damage incurred during the U. S. ocupation...
...fleet landed sailors and marines at Vera Cruz. The customs house was seized and the city was occupied, after some fighting, for the purpose of exacting an apology from Mexico for the arrest of U. S. gobs...
George Howell's success in stealing Vera's valuables is matched only by the professional light-fingered skill of one Nicholas King who returns on the same keeper that George takes. What with the accident and other excitement, the bags get mixed. King getting that containing the letters, and Howell that with a certain ruby necklace and burglar's tools...
...from Sioux City, complicates matters by discovering the rubies and pocketing them in order to claim a reward. This of course, just to make things, already mixed up, a little worse and ten times funnier. There are relatives, one of whom is the finance of Ned Pembroke the police, Vera, and finally Mrs. Pembroke. After the first act, the house proves a perfect trap, thanks to the slogan of Officer Mooney. "You can come...