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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other arriving dignitary was Wallace Rider Farrington, Governor of Hawaii, laden with a political purpose. According to almost incredible despatches it was nothing less than to obtain the aid of the Administration for the entry of 20,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese into this country. He did not linger in California...
That fighting son of Brittany, Premier Aristide Briand, mourned last week at the death of another great Breton, a man less famous but perhaps more beloved, M. Anatole le Braz, "the Bard of Brittany." Anatole le Braz was born 67 years ago in the very heart of the Breton peninsula and of parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint...
...Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Francis Grover Cleveland (youngest son of U. S.. President Cleveland) a daughter, at Cambridge, Mass...
...Born. To Jacobo, 10th Duke of Berwick, 17th Duke of Alba, Senator in the Spanish Cortes, 48, and Maria del Rosario de Silva y Gurtubay, Marquesa de San Vicente, 26, a daughter; at Madrid. The Duke is commonly referred to as the highest grandee in Spain. The retiring U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Moore, habitually addressed him not as "Jacobo" but as "Jimmy...
...born at Twickenham, England, haunt of Poet Alexander Pope. For decades he squandered huge sums extracted from various titled persons or realized from the sale of his estates. He attempted to enlist in the French army during the War but was refused. Under French law "the privilege of defending the Republic is denied to the sons of families that have reigned over France...