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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...
...scarce grew water throughout the English midlands that numerous water-hogging textile mills were forced to shut down for one week provisionally. In London, the Ministry of Health, after advising municipalities to ration their water with "rigid economy," concluded cryptically: "Statistics appear to show that the rainfall in England during the next few years may continue below average...
...Esperanto is pronounced as spelt, with the accent on the antipenult. The "i" is pronounced "ee;" accent-marked consonants are aspirated. ?After Sept. 1, teaching of English will be compulsory in all Czechoslovak schools. German is already compulsory...
...dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public...
Long has John North Willys of Toledo been a Big Automotive Man. He speaks French and English fluently, has often discoursed upon the automobile business, upon U. S. business in general. He contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along...