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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winged Patriotism. Benevolent and Protective is the Order of the Elks-but not towards Communism. Last week, Michael F. Shannon of Los Angeles, newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order, winged into the air from Chicago. Clyde Pangborn and Col. Roscoe Turner were his pilots. Next day he was in Boston, the following day in Atlantic City where he conferred with other benevolent antlered friends. Such was only the beginning of a 10,000-mile air tour that will take him to Asheville, Dallas, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...time has come" cried Grand Exalted Shannon, "when the issue is between the Stars and Stripes and the Red flag." To the 500,000 Elks in 1,400 cities he was carrying orders...
When Death came to Tibet's potent Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have...
...Manhattan's Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, 77, honorary president of the American Museum of Natural History, sailed for Europe with two grand daughters, announcing that he intended to take up the study of music. Frederick Bertrand Robinson, president of the College of the City of New York, who boasts, "I start something new each year," returned from a trip to Europe as a member of the crew of a Norwegian freighter. Said he: "It was the happiest 16 days I ever spent...
...late as 1932 and is considered one of France's richest woman. Even 35 years ago openings attended by such widespread public interest as those of last week were unheard of. Before the War the couturiers of Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing to spend as much as $1,000 for a brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around...