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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rightdoers in Great Britain are protected from newspaper libel by laws far more drastic than any similar U. S. statute. Last week Manhattan's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes won heavy compensation from the London Sunday Express which had erroneously reported the Cardinal to have said that the late assassinated Irish Free State Minister of Justice Kevin O'Higgins was "an English hireling...
...attributes of a theatrical spotlight; then and more notably as a producer of plays and because of his superlative work as a scenic artist. He was making use of his artistry in a curious way last week. Dame Terry had requested her friends to wear no mourning to express an erroneous sorrow; she had written, "there is no death. What seems so is only transition." To emphasize this peaceful belief, Gordon Craig was designing a white coffin, shaped like a cradle...
...Morpurgo, captain of the Italian team, rushed up to Tilden, said: "I'm sorry, Bill. This takes all the fun out of it." Some said the Baron grinned. But there was no doubt of the sincerity of Lacoste, who soon came to Tilden's room to express regrets...
...directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss of 23 lives...
...felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line on the upper reaches of the Mississippi. He then told them he favored private operation of that barge line, regarded Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going back to Brule, President Coolidge inspected a 41-Ib. muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross...