Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major Curran was selected for the administrative talent he had shown as Borough President of Manhattan (1920-21) and U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island (1923-26). Another recommendation was Major Curran's standing and acquaintance among tycoons of finance & industry. The frank object was to enlist for anti-Prohibition a roster of wealth and respectability comparable to what was recruited to "put over" Prohibition. This, it was predicted, would be a hard thing to do, because, regardless of their private convictions and habits, few wealthy citizens are willing to jeopardize their stand-in-the-community...
...fellow Moro's house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed, collapsed. The fourth was calm in the face of heaven's lightning. He believed, though he saw how the lightning was turned upon him, that houris would drag him into Paradise by his singed topknot...
...tiny plane droned its way across the unknown waste and terror of the Arctic. Impervious to disappointment, danger, tragedy, Capt. George Hubert Wilkins and Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson took off unannounced from Point Barrow, Alaska, came down for five dismal days on uninhabited Doedmansoeira (Dead Man's Island), arrived last week triumphant at the haven of Spitzbergen...
...Fisher Brothers, Louis P. and William A., executives of General Motors Corp., brought 100 guests from Detroit to City Island, N. Y., to watch twin yachts take the water. Each yacht is 106 feet long, finished in mahogany, capable of doing 22 miles per hour; was built for each Fisher brother at a cost of $250,000. Each Fisher brother plans to spend another $100,000 furnishing and decorating each yacht...
...speakers from the University of the Philippines have been touring America, matching their oratorical prowess with the leading colleges of the country. J. C. Borja, Pedro Camus, T. T. Evangelista, and Deogracias Puyat, president of the University of the Philippine Debating Club, comprise the Paclfic Island team. Professor C. P. Romula is its coach. The Philippine debaters believe that the question of independence does not have to be a bone of contention between the two peoples The only way to settle the question is by the interchange of ideas between their representatives and by contact with the national institutions...