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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestive skilfully-worded telegram," answered: "Affidavits evidently sent you for purely political purposes to destroy or weaken effect of my opposition to Wet Tammany Candidate Smith, parties selecting you as mouthpiece. I have bought and sold stocks and bonds and other kinds of property for many years, making full or partial payments on same just as other men do, but in such transactions so far as I knew dealt only with reputable brokers. . . ." Among the kinds of property he had sold Bishop Cannon listed "houses and lots, timber stumpage, coal, cotton and bank stocks and stocks and bonds listed...
Ship-Beauty. With the air full of birdsong and Findhorn murmurs, tactful Georges Leygues, France's fearsomely mustached Minister of Marine, ex-Prime Minister of France (1921), did his little bit for peace. He could not reduce France's navy, but at least he could make it look peaceable, he could beautify it. So France's new battleships and cruisers are to be decorated with sculpture and figured bas-reliefs. Charged with beautifying the battleships was an elderly sculptor, named Moreau-Vauthier...
...voice in pious rejoicings. Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and his assistant, Bishop Pascual Diaz of Ta basco, hastened from Chapultepec Palace to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, five miles from the city, knelt in prayer for ten minutes. In his prayers Bishop Diaz, huge and dour, a full-blooded Jalisco Indian, had cause to be grateful to the Pope, who had signalled the peace by appointing him Archbishop of Mexico City, Primate of all Mexico. Correspondents in Mexico remembered that the Indian Archbishop had been the bitterest opponent of President Calles' religious laws, the sturdiest fighter...
...city in each of the 48 States to increase popular interest in aviation. When the French Flyers Nungesser & Coli disappeared while crossing the Atlantic westward (1927) Daniel Guggenheim gave $25,000 for an expedition to locate them. Last December he gave the Chilean Government $500,000 to establish full aeronautical instruction...
...getting material for his sixth novel, Little Caesar, and his seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...