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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These statements by the U. S. Minister were so different from what the normal Englishman likes to believe, that some few London papers came out in a healthy pox and said that, as everyone knows, Great Britain does what she does in Egypt to protect the main artery of her commerce, the Suez Canal, and will continue to do so indefinitely...
When Swedish-American liner Stockholm pushed gently into its berth, the hundreds of men and women on the pier stood at attention. Aboard, on the main deck, the Sangsallakapet De Svenske (national chorus of Sweden), otherwise known as the Singing Vikings, of whom there are 52 in all, sang out the Swedish national anthem...
...wiry, serious-looking man of 32-Charles Duncan Chamberlin-a product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining...
There are two stories of exhibition galleries along Quincy Street, the upper story having a toplight. The most important gallery on the main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...
Near the entrance, also on the main floor, a small accessions room is pro- vided in which new material may be shown before its final placement in the collection. To the rear are the library and photographic rooms, in both of which the stacks, offices, and store rooms are supplemented by additional space in the basement. There is still space for 60,000 books and 80,000 photographs