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...Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke Lea, who, at 38, had already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee mountaineers. Accepted by the Army as the 114th Field Artillery, they went to France, where they survived the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
...that the Japanese can be counted on to understand, and General Chiang's resistance to Japan has presumably been stiffened by the U.S. loan of $50,000,000 to Chungking, which has drawn many Chinese bankers to that city from Shanghai. Last week as Chungking got its 114th bombing-as usual a poor exchange of Japanese steel and high explosives for Chinese brick and rubble-Far Easterners began referring to Chungking as the economic center of China. A popular Chinese witticism about U.S. aid-"Loud noise on staircase but nobody comes down steps"-is still funny but perhaps less...
Academicism was all over the place last week. In Manhattan opened the 114th annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design. Chicago's Art Institute, unofficial academy of the Middle West, had its 44th annual Artists-of-Chicago-&-Vicinity exhibition. In Manhattan's Durlacher Galleries opened the first representative U. S. showing of 17th-Century Nicolas Poussin, granddad of all French academic painters...
...114th day of this year's Spanish Civil War, the Radical Madrid Cabinet were driven to flee from the capital last week by the conquering White Armies of singularly humorous and carefree Francisco Franco, a commander who even in the darkest days of his campaign surprised correspondents by keeping up an ebullient and ever-smiling mien to be compared only to that of President Roosevelt...
...dedicate a temple at the village of Laie. Hawaiian Mormons now number 14,000 saints. Last week stubble-bearded, 78-year-old President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including...