Word: newfoundlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
...President transmitted to the Senate a recommendation of Secretary Hughes that U. S. sovereignty be extended over Swains Island, a little speck of land off the Bonavista Bay district of Newfoundland, not far from Greenspond Island. It was discovered by a Briton who deeded it to an American. Great Britain does not contest our sovereignty...
...British plan to return on June 26. Lyons, Rome, Brindisi, Athens, Cairo, Karachai is their first lap. They will then go to Calcutta, across Burma to Hongkong and Tokyo, then across the Pacific to Vancouver, through Canada to Newfoundland, and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon, via the Azores, Paris, London. If all goes according to schedule, the two expeditions will cross each other's paths in Japan...
...Gallishaw, having gone through the Gallipoli campaign as a member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
...Gallishaw, a Canadian by birth, was a student at the University in 1914. When the war broke out, he joined the Newfoundland Regiment, which was sent to England. The Regiment was then sent to Gallipoli. After the British attack, there were, out of the entire regiment, only 150 survivors...