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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give these to the President...
Additions to Hooverism included: Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Oklahoma Democrat, onetime (1907-25) U. S.Senator. Reason: Tammany (see p. n). Dr. D. E. Mitchell, Tennessee Democrat, onetime President of Cumberland University. Reason: Prohibition, "economic policies." Francis S. Guthrie, Pittsburgh Democrat. Reasons: foreign and economic policies. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, onetime (1920-28) member of the Democratic National Committee. Reason: Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James...
...fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang, the drawl of Kentucky and Texas still lingers...
General Electric Co. (Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young) : $24,388,002 as against...
Soon a U. S. youth will leave for the Belgian Congo, to battle with the tsetse fly. He is Dr. Warren K. Stratman-Thomas, 28, research pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., M. D., Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation which annually sends 75 young U. S. scholars, scientists, artists, to study in all parts of the world...