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...Postmaster General Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones were picked up. Variously billed as "The Democratic Good-Will Tour of Texas," "The Garner-Farley Texas Trip" and (by capital wags) "The Farley Expedition to Rediscover Jack Garner," the voyagers spent the night at Jackson, Miss. Having paused at Meridian to dedicate a post office, next day at Fort Worth they discovered little old hawk-beaked Vice President Garner. Then the fun began...
...Cocke Jr., had sailed for 21½ hr. over Honolulu two years ago. . . . Kurt Schmidt swung along the ridge again, soared silently through the darkness. His friends on the ground, catching the idea, flashed weather signals to him with a pocket flashlight. Midnight passed, dawn broke, the sun touched meridian. Kurt Schmidt, tired and hungry, sailed on & on. A second dusk brought threats of a storm. Schmidt and the Loerzer landed with a duration record...
...garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time, it will now only bark...
...Fairchild Fellowship to P. E. Bryan, of Emery University, Georgia; the Brandies Research Fellowship to A. L. Harding, of Dallas, Texas; and three unnamed research fellowships in the school, to P. A. Freund, of St. Louis, Missouri; G. V. Head of Columbia, Missouri; and J. J. Smith, Jr., of Meridian, Mississippi...
Among those who offered fowl roosts too high for careful Calvin Coolidge was rich Mrs. John B. Henderson, Washington socialite, nonagenarian widow of a Senator from Missouri, who has seen all Presidents from Lincoln to Hoover. Long has she labored to build up Washington's Meridian Hill district into a paradise of embassies and official buildings along an "Avenue of the Presidents." She asked Congress to let the Vice President live in her $300,000 mansion on 15th Street. Representative Ernest Willard Gibson of Vermont prepared a bill accepting Mrs. Henderson's gift for the nation, and appropriating...