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Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...Farmington, N. H. News appeared the following: "Correction:-In the personal column of last week's issue it was reported that Carroll Peavey and daughter Nancy, of Lisbon, were in town recently, and in their itinerary of visits included the former's grandfather, Albert S. Wallace. Mr. Wallace wishes it contradicted that he received this attention from his grandson...
Iglesias (Spain-Brazil 1929). On General Balbo's side spoke Portugal's Admiral Gago Coutinho (Lisbon-Brazil 1922) whose government had given France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
...Lisbon, which has more and higher hills than Rome, popular Admiral Alfonso Becerqueira spent six days in jail last week...
...Junkers monoplane which once belonged to Charles A. Levine. three airmen took off from Juncal do Sol, near Lisbon last week to try the "uphill" route across the Atlantic, which only Coste & Bellonte have completed nonstop. The flyers were Willy Rody, a German who had spent his inheritance on the plane; Christian Johanssen, a German-naturalized Dane; and Fernando Costa Viega, Portuguese sportsman. Their plane, christened the Esa for Rody's bride, reached the Azores, headed out over the Great Circle course towards Newfoundland...