Dallas contest winner sails world tour on Kroonland
Dorothy Stahl won a Dallas beauty contest plus a $500 prize and 30 head of steers. She will travel around the world on the Panama Pacific liner Kroonland and upon arrival in San Francisco issued a challenge to California beauties to match or beat her measurements. Her listed figures include weight 187 pounds height 5 feet 5 inches bust 86 inches waist 26% inches neck 12% inches biceps 11 inches thigh 23 inches calf 141% inches ankle 8 inches.
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Dorothy Stahl
Lawa
Dallas
Tex
San Francisco
California
Germany and France at odds over Ruhr policy and German rearmament
British, French and American observers report Germany has been recruiting and arming well beyond Versailles limits since 1922. Berlin faces internal political shifts as Stresemann's foreign policy looms, while Poland protests German royal line and Ruhr occupation costs. Hunger protests in the Ruhr are not tied to shortages as food imports surge.
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Britain
France
Germany
Ruhr
Berlin
Allied Military Commission
Reuter
Leipzig
Rance
America
Coblenz
Belgium
Governors Pinchot plan discussed at Harrisburg meeting
Representatives from coal states met in Harrisburg at Governor Pinchot s call to discuss a proposed interstate commission under a compact to regulate the anthracite industry. They adjourned without action and urged Pennsylvania to repeal its coal tax and pass remedial legislation. Governor Silzer of New Jersey criticized the plan.
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Harrisburg
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Silzer
New Jersey
Morrow to Join Railroad Labor Board After Governorship
Dwin P. Morrow will retire as Kentucky governor in December and then join the railroad labor board as a public group member, replacing R. M. Barton. He had been offered the post last spring but preferred to finish his term as governor, prompting Barton’s recess appointment by President Harding.
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Kentucky
R. M.barton
Railroad
Mr. Morrow
Mr. Barton
Harding
Mediterranean Power Plays Stir Rance Over Italo Spanish Pact
RANCE voices strong concern over an Italo Spanish understanding seen as a bid for Mediterranean supremacy. A France Greece counter agreement is suggested and the United States is urged to note Spain's push for Latin American influence perceived as a challenge to the Monroe doctrine.
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Mediterranean
France
Greece
United States
Spain
Latin America
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