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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handled in this country.** President Coolidge, instead of appointing a disinterested board, 'stuffed the deck.' He appointed on it persons well known to be hostile to the independent development of aviation. . . . Instead of creating a department of aeronautics separate from the Army and Navy as the English, French, Germans, Italians, Russians and Spanish have, they merely appointed an additional secretary in the Army, Navy and Commerce Departments, which entrenched the bureaucracy more firmly and gave an opportunity of passing plums to friends...
...England, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Maltravers, Baron FitzAlan. Baron Clun, Baron Oswaldestre, scion of one of England's oldest families-who was to be 21, and a man, next day. From all the corners of his 49,900 English acres the Duke of Norfolk's men were coming, as they had come for 15 dukes before him. And with them came wives and children, for the coming-of-age festivities of England's Premier Duke & Earl were to last four days, were to be unparalleled in Arundel...
...time a photograph of the festive scene appeared in Tokyo's English news paper, The Trans-Pacific. Read the caption: "Life in the Central Police Station always assumes a jolly air following any outstanding piece of robber-nabbing...
Prof. Rogers may have acquired his social doctrine at Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1909. He was an early student in the Harvard Theatrical Workshop of Prof. George Pierce Baker, now Dean of the Yale Drama School. Since 1913 he has taught American, English and European Literature and Drama...
...going to them among the student body. If for instance one knew that on a certain day of each week or even each alternate week there was to be a concert, he would get into the habit of always keeping that evening free, a custom quite common in the English Universities. The conditions of the present gift easily allow of such use and the fact that many Universities far outdistance Harvard in this field demands that the Music department give careful attention to its possibilities...