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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught by a small group of the finest men and instructors I have ever had-all hand picked by Bishop Brent. The mountain climate, excellent care and discipline, and the best of instruction make me recall my Baguio days as the happiest of my boyhood, and it was all due to Bishop Brent's realizing a crying need of the times and supplying this need with a school that still is ranked very high among boys' schools...
...Bremen, Europa and newly re-engined and speeded Columbus should be put in service. Shares of the N. G. L. were placed on the U. S. market last November by Direktor Stimming personally at $69. Dividends of $3.42 per share were paid last week but this showing was due in part to the fact that U. S. Treasury had recently paid to the N. G. L. $2,000,000 in cash compensation for piers at Manhattan seized during the War. A positive announcement from the office of Direktor Stimming, last week, assured that the Europa will be completed for service...
...greatest achievement was Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In 1927 that sensitive plant, Franco-American relations, was in a precarious state due to the un- fortunate flight of the French flyers Nungesser and Coli. Shy, Nordic Lindbergh was just what the clever diplomat needed. He rushed to Le Bourget waving French and U. S. flags; seized on "Lucky Lindy" with avidity; put him to bed in his own diplomatic pajamas; wrapped him in the tricolor; had him photographed, interviewed, dined and decorated; and caused the greatest enthusiasm for things U. S. since French transports of joy hailed the first U. S. transports...
Modernist furniture and decor is replete with berserk zigzagging, nightmare shapes and gaudiness. These architects, however, with the taste bred of academic training, create in a dulcet and tempered mood. The results are fresh without being freakish. But, due to the cost of materials and the scarcity of fine modernist designers, they are also expensive...
...time of the winning crew 30 minutes 33 seconds, was due larger to the rough conditions and the course quest shipping of considerable amounts of water...