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...dispatches from Hawaii indicate that the account of the murder, coupled with the incidents of the foregoing three months, contains any number of those elements any one of which would catapult the story into the headlines. The details of murder and attack in connection with wealth and social prominence would be enough to keep the incident prominent for some time alone. But added to this are the aspects of race prejudice, naval interference, and congressional investigation and imperialism. The former will delight the mass mind; and because of the latter comment from the most intelligent is inevitable. All papers have...
...remembered through the winter. Their rival brothers, the plane crew of the Europa, had made a record last month by landing the mail in New York 28 hr. ahead of the steamer (TIME, Sept. 21). The Bremen's mail should be there 30 hr. ahead of time. The catapult on the Bremen's sundeck whirred; the plane shot into the sky 1,300 mi. northeast of Ambrose Lightship and flew on into rain, fog & headwind. At dark she alighted for a moment on Glace Bay Harbor to check position with a fishing boat...
...Catapult, with...
...Madrid, mechanically-minded medical students approached their school bearing in triumph a large wooden catapult with which they intended to cobblestone the police. The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up. There was a fusillade of shots. A Civil guard cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber...
...Catapult Muffler...