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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early last Monday morning Havana's roosters crowed in healthy unison. El Gallo* himself, the President of the Republic, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, had just gone to bed and to sleep in the presidential palace. The sun would soon be rising in the wake of the crescent moon. The General had spent the full night, as is his habit, dining, dancing, talking, enjoying himself heartily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: El Gallo, El Egregio | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

This spring the club plane has been in the air on an average of one and one-half hours a day which is a high average considering the stormy weather that has been prevalent this year. During the Spring Recess, the plane, with H. P. Moon '32 piloting, made a cross-country flight to New York and Philadelphia carrying several members of the University of Pennsylvania flying club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT OF FLYING CLUB ANNOUNCES PLANS | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...next cross-country flight will take place this week when Moon and R. B. Bell '30, former president, will fly the plane to New Bedford and the Cape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT OF FLYING CLUB ANNOUNCES PLANS | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...STRANGE MOON-by T. S. Stribling- Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sawdust Serial | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sawdust Serial | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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