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Chief Judge at Finish: William F. Garcelon, Harvard. Judges at Finish: W. J. Bingham '16, Rupert B. Thomas, Princeton; Louis C. Madeira, Pennsylvania; John T. Kilpatrick, Yale; William C. Prout, Brown; J. T. Mahoney, C.C. N. Y. Starters: John J. McHugh, P. S. A. L. N. Y., Hugh C. McGrath, Boston. Chief Timer. Mortimer Bishop, New York University, Timers: Charles J. Dieges, N. Y. A. C., George L. Moylan, Harvard; Charles A. S. Hatfield, Fordham; William A. Schick '05, Harvard...
...used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only out of gas. And they were hard by the shores of Porto Santo...
Karl's last view of Hungary was from the deck of a British monitor which carried him down the Danube, through the Black Sea to the Ægean waters and landed him at Funchal in Madeira, where he died the following April...
...world now knows of the electric hobby-horse in the White House. This was the first sign of the coming revolution. It has been followed by an even more portentious event. Bernard Shaw has been taking tango lessons in Madeira. During this period he claims to have written more than during any other equal period of time in his career...
...time that he was holding the fort for banished Kaiser Karl. But, when the latter returned for the first time, Horthy successfully opposed him and, on his second attempt, to seize the throne, the Admiral fought him, had him handed over to the Allies, who took him to Madeira. In all fairness, Horthy was obliged to oppose the return of his Monarch, for the armies of the Little Entente were mobilizing on Hungary's frontiers. His alleged insolent attitude toward the Kaiser and the shelling of the Imperial train were unnecessary acts; and the royal state in which...