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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Sons o' Guns. Jack Donahue is an awkward member of the A. E. F. Lily Damita, cinema favorite, is a bonny barmaid he meets behind the lines. In a village painted by Joseph Urban, peopled with an Albertina Rasch peasant ballet, echoing with nice tunes, they enjoy the most amiable war on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...ditch. (It has again been rebuilt.) The Burnelli Skyliner for Paul Wadsworth Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field, L. I., shortly after taking off with fouled and overheated motors. The ship burned itself and two houses. Vexed, Designer Fokker declared that pilot's fallibility rather than faulty design was the cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...dormitories disguised as "Inner college" that are hardly more than a dignification and moralistic extension of the Harvard tutorial system, are significant only as more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Class C: University 5. Walkover Club, Brockton, 0. F. O. Canfield '32 defeated L. Johnson (Walkover), 13-15, 13-15, 16-15, 17-14, 16-14; G. R. Clark '32 defeated R. D. Paul (Walkover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SQUASH TEAMS WIN; TWO OTHERS ARE BEATEN | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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