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Word: alexandria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevailing demand for French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief European port through which "white slaves" pass is Marseille, France; but Lisbon, Portugal, and Piraeus, Greece, are auxiliary ports of shipment in which conditions are?if possible? more debased than at Marseille; 5) The Anglo-Saxon countries scarcely figure in the international traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...statements made in European capitals. She has criticized the Mexican Constitution and the structure of laws based thereon. She has declared that some day downtrodden Mexican women will rise and assert themselves. Just now she is safely out of Mexico but Mexican indignation still runs high against Mme. Alexandria Kollontay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Spiteful Ministress? | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...President Coolidge had prepared himself for a trip to Philadelphia. But he paused on the White House threshold, retreated, waited. From a window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

From Manhattan, the Radio Corporation of America sent the picture by radiogram to London. At London a print was made and sent by air mail to Antwerp, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and Madrid; by express steamer to Alexandria (Egypt), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Montevideo (Uruguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cadillac Photoradiogram | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

From the British naval base on the Island of Malta two British battleships steamed last week to Alexandria and a third to Port Said. This show of British strength in two principal ports of Egypt was made because Premier Sarwat Pasha had presented to the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, a recommendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Spinks Incident | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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