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...graceful 320-ft. yacht was built at J. & G. Thompson's shipyards, Clydebank, Scotland, painted white, launched as the Mayflower, sold to Manhattan Landlord Ogden Goelet for $1,250,000. Two years later the U. S. Navy bought her for $430,000, ran her as a dispatch & gunboat in Cuban waters. Thereupon the naval auxiliary Mayflower cruised in U. S. waters and abroad, carried such potentates as Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, made history as the signing place of the peace treaty following the Russo-Japanese War. In 1902 she became the Presidential yacht of Roosevelt...
...that Associated Press is to white readers, Associated Negro Press is to Negro readers of 112 papers which print ANP news, about half the U. S. Negro press. Last week one of ANP's three African correspondents sent a dispatch which every white news agency missed...
Irving Dilliard, 33. St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer...
...late dispatch from Wellesley indicated that the girls had undergone a brief warm-up session with the Princeton Country Day School, and that everything seemed in good shape for the scrum in Briggs' Cage on Saturday. The H.A.A. announced that the grapplers would dispense with the usual formalities and begin the three-hour halves promptly at eight. It was warned that the entertainment tax would be higher than usual...
Irving Dillard, 33, editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received an A.B. degree from Illinois and has done graduate work at Harvard. For 9 years he has specialized in social investigation...