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...Shadows Eastward." Most dramatic episode occurred when 69-year-old Senator Norris passed Progressive leadership over to 36-year-old Senator "Young Bob" La Follette. His deep-set blue eyes wet with emotion, Senator Norris declared: "I am drawing near the place where the setting sun casts its shadows eastward. My time to pass over the river will come at no very distant day. [Cries of "No! No!" from the audience.] But when I pass on I would like to do so with the realization that the banner of civic rights will be taken up by young men who will...
...flew down Florida, hopped to Jamaica, crossed the Caribbean to the Canal Zone?everywhere the favorite guest at most important dinners?the Navy's forces were converging in the tropics. Before them was Fleet Problem 12. Eastward across the Pacific steamed a supposedly hostile fleet composed of nine battleships, an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Langley) with 40 planes, three "treaty" cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could...
...plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago...
...Edgell '09 dean of the Department of Landscape Architecture, gave a talk last Saturday. January 17, at the Harvard Club of San Diego, as the opening lecture of his tour in the Far West, and is working his way eastward by way of Colorado and Omaha. The last lecture of the series will take place in Washington. D. C. on Wednesday, February...
Couriers. As dawn broke over the airport at Victoria, B. C. one day last week two swift Army pursuit planes roared into the air, flew eastward on an impressive mission. The leader, Lieut. Irvin A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team (TIME, May 5), carried a despatch case containing Japanese Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the London Naval Treaty. The document had been speeded across the Pacific by the steamer Hikawa Maru, 12 hr. ahead of schedule, had to sail out of New York aboard the Leviathan four days later in order...