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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit, ist Class" on him. El Loco picked up his President and bussed him on both cheeks. Ambassador Morrow he saluted snappily...
Last week, some 50 years after the Reconstruction Period, began three new chapters in the history of Negroes at U. S. training schools. Dignified, grey-wooled Oscar de Priest, the Negro who has succeeded the late Martin Barnaby Madden as Representative of Chicago's black-belt ist District, sent up the names of two young Negroes for admission to Annapolis. A third he nominated for West Point. All were boys from his District. All are high-school graduates with reputations for studious application, fine character. Laurence A. Whitfield and Claude Henson Burns are the Annapolis nominees. Alonzo Souleigh Parham...
...Senator ist Wisconsin District Washington...
...University (class of 1920). He edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Field Artillery...
...Northumberland?". . . "Who's for Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity...