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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the T. A. D. Jones, sturdy collier. Last week, off the New Jersey coast, the T. A. D. Jones was fired on, stopped by the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Seneca...
Back from the American Pro-Cathedral in Paris to sun-swept Mt. St. Alban, highest point in Washington, D. C., will be brought the body of Norman Prince, founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille, there to be sepulchred within the Washington National Cathedral. Bishop James Edward Freeman made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle...
Shirley Short, U. S. Air Mail pilot; Pelletier ("Paris to Peking") D'Oisy; Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Lady Mary ("London to Capetown") Bailey...
...From Albany to Manhattan the Hudson River measures 132¼ mi. Railroad trains cover the distance in three hours. By air it takes 90 min. The winner of last week's outboard motorboat race took 3 hrs. 36 min. 40 sec. When the yellow boat with its Johnson D motor reached 152nd St., Commodore Eldridge fired another pistol and black-mustached Jacob Dunnell of Boston had broken a record for the Albany-New York course. His average speed was 37.4 m. p. h. Honors in last week's race went to the Johnson D motors which won first...
Like the Hobgoblins future men will look. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ahles herd-li-ka) said so at Philadelphia last week. He is Curator of the Division of Physical Anthropology of the U. S. Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. He derived his picture, conjured the Hobgoblins, from his knowledge of human evolution and environment...