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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Edward Lee was the youngest son of "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary hero who surprised Paulus Hook, N. J., and was awarded a gold medal. The blood of Lionel Lee who fought with Richard Coeur de Lion ran in his veins. He hankered early for a military life and was devoted to his mother, who raised her boy to be a soldier...
...Comtesse de Chambrun (née Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, sister of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) was made a member of the French Legion of Honor, in recognition of her researches to explode the theory that Francis Bacon wrote the works of William Shakespeare. For the last 26 years she has been a resident of France and Morocco, where her husband, General le Comte Jacques-Adalbert de Chambrun, has been stationed for eight years...
Appointed. Dr. Lemuel Herbert Murlin, now president of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., onetime President of Baker University and of Boston University, to be pastor of the American Church in Berlin, Germany, where he officiated from...
...streak through the air, with gallant Major Mario de Bernardi as pilot, gave Italy a new record for speed flying last week. Piloting a special seaplane, the Italian ace averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, at times going 350 miles an hour. The previous record was his own, 296.94 miles an hour, established last November...
Settin' down side o' de Lamb...