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Costes to Le Brix. Joseph Le Brix, flying from Paris to Saigon, French Indo-China (TIME, March 4). crashed safely into the Gulf of Martaban, Burma, last week. In Paris was his onetime world-tour partner and present antagonist. Dieudonne Costes, who crashed a fortnight ago at the beginning of a similar pan-Eurasian flight. Crashed Flyer Costes sent Crashed Flyer Le Brix a carefully polite message of condolence...
Almost the antithesis and often the bland antagonist of Bishop Cannon is Bishop Warren Akin Candler of Atlanta, an M-E of the old school, a believer in the status quo, in worship before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters...
...Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...
Suit was brought by the Chicago Tribune, loud antagonist of louder Thompson. Other guilt-branded members of the conspiracy: George F. Harding, the county treasurer; Michael J. Faherty, president of the board of local improvements; Percival B. Coffin, public administrator...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...