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President Machado of Cuba was waiting at the dock to shake the hands of President Coolidge and party. After much bugling, saluting, blowing and picture-taking, the procession started, via O'Reilly street and Teodoro Roosevelt street through a blizzard of rosebuds, under balconies, past cathedrals, to the presidential palace. "A-a-a-h!!" said thousands of appreciative Cubans when the two Presidents appeared on a balcony...
...task. He was a War flyer; continued his practical interest in aviation through other political occupations; was summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar to those in which the Army "Good Will Fliers" circled South America early this year...
...June 22 with 25 horses the expedition headed south on the Athabaska River toward its source, which is the Columbia Icefield. After several minor climbs en route Ostheimer and Fuhrer made the first ascent of Mt. Dais. The day was bad and the climbers found themselves in a veritable blizzard when they neared the peak. The ridge leading to the summit was completeley covered with fresh snow and the vertical southern face, hidden in clouds and snow, presented a mountaineering problem of the first order, making the climbing extremely dangerous. Further later stated that the hours spent in feeling their...
...eager eyes of men who operate financial news tickers singled out these words, lifted, them from their context and flashed them all over the country to men who speculate in cotton. At once a blizzard of cotton-selling began. In one day's trading, cotton prices dropped off $5.50 to $6 per bale. With 20 million bales the prospective total of their current crop, U. S. cotton growers found themselves some $90,000,000 poorer overnight. Speculators on the "long" side of a previously rising market found themselves sore stranded...
...unchurchly anecdotes because, trekking around his desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...