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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fast Tank. The Army sent a wicked-looking military contraption charging over a rough Maryland field and among sand dunes at 42 m. p. h. It was the newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...
Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice (see p...
Married. Michael J. P. Cudahy, grandson of Meatpacker Michael Cudahy; to Cinemactress Muriel Evans (real name: Muriel Evansen); at Riverside, Calif. In 1927, Heir Cudahy attempted elopement with Cinemactress Marie Astaire, was intercepted by his mother at Santa Barbara, jailed, sent home, "put to bed for safe keeping...
Elected. Herbert Farrington Perkins, first vice president of International Harvester Co.; to be president, succeeding Alexander Legge, new-chosen chairman of the Federal Farm Board (see p...
Capt. Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, M. P., diligent soldier, former Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, now a grizzled, crop-lipped campaigner with 25 years' service in the Conservative ranks, was led last week to the Chair of the House of Commons. Solemnly following the ritual, Capt. Fitzroy made "formal gestures of protest,'' shook his head, thrust out his arms pleadingly. Then, still in ritual, he abandoned formal gestures, sat upon the chair, and became for the second time and by unanimous vote, Speaker of the House of Commons, First Commoner of the Realm. As such...