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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Byrd. Virginia has been proud of its Byrds ever since William Byrd fought Indians in 1683. Today there are three famed Byrd brothers-"Tom, Dick and Harry." Harry F. Byrd is Governor of Virginia. Capt. Thomas D. Byrd, U. S. Army retired, served with distinction in the World War, now manages a vast apple farm in Maryland. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd is the outstanding scientist-aviator...
...into them. For Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, sentenced to be electrocuted during the week of July 10, were given a one-month respite by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts to permit further investigation of their seven-year case. A similar respite was also given to one Celestino F. Madeiros, condemned killer, whose testimony is an important factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti investigation...
...from poles on the Norrbro, the bridge which leads to the Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank you and all the citizens of the wonderful...
...interest of Spaniards in matters of sport follows the King. Therefore, last week, the presence of King Alfonso at Wimbledon was almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita...
...sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden West, Communism as the hope of all that is hopable there by Author Sinclair and the woeful workers whose Moses he is. Like many bores, Mr. Sinclair is genial; like more...