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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle where his son will rest. Three famed dead now rest within the cathedral's gaunt unfinished walls: Woodrow Wilson, Admiral George Dewey, Melville Elijah Stone. A brave aviator, Norman Prince, after 122 aerial combats in which he brought down five hostile planes, was killed in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Norman Prince | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel's chief host, but Assumption College under the Massachusetts laws can only give a B. A. degree. An ambassador should certainly be honored with not less than an LL.D. So Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worcester's Day | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society. In the end he repudiated himself." To the Allies' shambling policy, or rather lack of policy regarding the Soviet, Churchill attributes much of Russia's tragedy. Timely support of Kolchak, brave but bewildered Czech general, would have given effective substance to the ghost war, "... a war in areas so vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays and massacres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of Herrick | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...decided that it happened on a Friday, April 7, 1899 years ago. At 3 o'clock the women and gamins who had climbed the hill, and the casual Roman soldiers who had gambled for the clothes, heard the words, "Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." So brave, so peaceful was the death that even the Romans were troubled. Clouds gathered and there was an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1899th Easter | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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