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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago wise men searched for a fitting anniversary to be called Navy Day. They thought of that spunky Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that President who sent a proud fleet roaring around the world; so they made his birthday Navy Day. Theodore Roosevelt was born...
...Appointed an Imperial Commission on Nationality to investigate such questions as "What is the nationality of an individual born in a French ship on the high seas of an Irish Free State mother and a Siamese father...
...Southern Pacific Railroad, of which he was President when he died, and who passed on most of his shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways). He made about a hundred million dollars. He said he would retire at 60. That...
...Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Va., and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F., is Governor of Virginia...
...down to what you all are most interest in I myself, was born in Shemokin, Pa., just before the Panic of 1893 (this was pure coincidence), of poor but honest parents. (Father was poor and mother was honest). We were, in fact, so poor that for economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful...