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...taken every degree open to a professor in France, he knows more about the U. S. and U. S. history than the vast majority of U. S. citizens. No myopic flatfoot, Professor Faÿ served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits to the U.S., has lectured at Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State et al. Still a bachelor, on trips to Manhattan he stays at the Harvard Club...
...India, Lieut. Heinrichs went from theological seminary into avia tion. He saw Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt shot down in France, had three escapes from death in mid-air himself. In the Battle of St. Mihiel he fell 3,000 ft., got off with ten wounds. He won a Croix de Guerre with palm, bars and citations. "Luckiest Man" Heinrichs, dapper and kinetic, has won to his side at the new Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. men of many faiths. In his tennis club are 31 Orthodox Greeks, 31 Protestants, eleven Roman Catholics, ten Moslems, nine Jews, seven Gregorians, one Baha...
...High School in Virginia, and to the University. A cousin who followed him a few years later became "Little Tui." Off to War v:ent "Big Tui," to serve in the French ambulance corps for two years and finish as a U. S. first lieutenant. He returned with a Croix de Guerre, sold bonds for a time, entered Virginia's Theological Seminary, was ordained in 1926. For the past six years "Big Tui" has been chaplain at U. S. Military Academy at West Point where-a tall, stalwart, one-time Virginia halfback, an able golfer, tennis player and rider...
...years the U. S. has gradually increased its domain by battle and bargain until today 137,008,435 persons live under its flag from Point Barrow on the North to Pago-Pago on the South, from St. Croix on the East to Balabac Island on the West.* Last week Congress sent to the White House the first bill in history proposing that the U. S. decrease its territorial empire...
...mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their money. Other Frenchmen wrote denunciatory letters. In Montparnasse a mob knocked out the front teeth of a Dr. Daniel Mahoney of San Francisco, who won a Croix de Guerre...