Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the recent announcement from France that the visa fee has been reduced from $10 to $2. comes a question of how the United States stands on this question. As a war revenue measure we first issued a visa fee of $10 for all foreigners visiting bur shores. This tax still stands...
...Conference," wrote Poldavian Lamidaeff. "and we appeal to you as a member of the French Parliament to do your utmost to help us in this our hour of need. The whole nation of Poldavia and its noble monarch who disregarded personal safety in 1916, and joined France in her War for justice and righteousness, pray you to remember our sacrifices...
After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
...still on Park Avenue. His galleries have never been open to the public, though once he took his collections en a nationwide, personally-conducted exhibition-tour. Post-War conditions injured the Hamilton Philippine interests. From time to time lately some painting has been sold. But the Hamilton collection remains among the nation's best...
Author Crosby is not specially fond of little boys, nor has he one of his own. Skippy is mostly himself as he remembers himself, and as he still is. Born in Brooklyn 36 years ago, he started out to do serious painting. He cartooned at the front during the War, began Skippy in Life...