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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
...have had something to do with Pershing's marvelous rise from Captain to Brigadier, but in this important matter he had no hand. This can be easily verified by consulting with Ex-Secretary Newton Diehl Baker or Brigadier General George Van Horn Moseley in com mand of the First Cavalry Division of El Paso, Texas. PAUL GALLAGHER...
...years which U. S. taxpayers would have to meet. The annual cost of handling the U. S. mails is about 800 millions. Postal deficits are due to the fact that not all postal rates cover equitably the cost of the service rendered. The Post Office makes money on handling first-class letter mail, on postal savings, on its registry service. It loses on second-class matter (newspapers, magazines), fourth-class (parcels post), rural free delivery, air and marine mail. The only loss which President Hoover considers justifiable is on air mail which he feels is still in an experimental stage...
...last week an affable little man with round rosy cheeks and thin grey hair entered for the first time an unpretentious office in a temporary building on Washing ton's Mall and there seated himself in one of the most thankless swivel chairs in the Government. The little man was Frank Xavier Alexander Eble, called "Alphabet" by his friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made...
Last week, while its author sunned himself in Italy with sophisticated and sympathetic Novelist-Essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, news came that another Lawrence venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...