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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
...TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children from Manville's Poletown, two little Kolesars and two little Klementoviches, made an expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot, died that evening. The two Klementoviches were also struck. Johnny's sister identified Craig Hoffman as "the man in the brown pants" who fired the shot. Hoffman was hustled off to jail, held without bail...
Three times the airplane dragged the "sleeve" target, at the end of a 2,000 ft. line, across the sky. Once it was not fired upon because both ship and target were too close to the sun. Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted...
...exchange of views on naval reduction has brought the two Nations so close to agreement that the obstacles in previous conferences arising out of Anglo-American disagreements seem now substantially removed. . . . We have been able to end, we trust forever, all competitive building between ourselves . . . by agreeing to a parity of fleets, category by category...
...between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...