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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...
...which has just been won by the Choate, News, but a residue and the accumulated interest has left enough money to present a fourth cup. The 1926 editors have requested the competition to be continued another year and it is expected that a contest will get underway in the near future. Although the competition has been limited in the past to those school newspapers belonging to the School Newspaper Federation, it is probably that the fourth contest will be open to school papers anywhere in the United States. Definite information will be announced within a short time...
...hand when every advertisement is a "unit of effective art," to quote from the announcement of the awards, the leaders in the field at least, have certainly come very near achieving it. By the publicity given the competition itself and the work of the prize-winners, the Bok foundation has made valuable contributions towards the attainment of that ideal...
...Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre in 1904. Last week he called himself the world's largest operator of cinema houses. He cited figures. He had just added a new group of 40 independent theatres in and near Manhattan, with annual profits of $5,000,000, seating capacity of 280,000. Acquisition of this new group, called Fox Metropolitan Playhouses Inc.. may bring Fox gross business in 1929 to a total of $135,000,000, Fox sealing capacity to 700,000. To fortify further his position...