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President Roy D. Chapin of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, to ask that the President invite the International Road Congress to hold its next meeting...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...
...Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death...
Tilden and Hunter then took the National Championship: 10-8, 6-3, 6-3. Tilden served eight aces; Hunter, one; Williams, one; Johnson, none. Tilden last won a doubles title in 1923 (with Brian Norton). Last year Williams and the then amateur Vincent Richards beat Tilden & A. H. Chapin in the finals...
...quarter finals came the first surprise. Mrs. Mallory, winner last year of the championship from Elizabeth Ryan (Miss Wills did not play), fell before the skill and determination of Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin. Tennis followers saw in the defeat the eclipse of Mrs. Mallory, who came to this country from Norway as Molla Bjurstedt in 1915, and through the years until Helen Wills appeared, monopolized the U. S. women's tennis spotlight...