Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government [Haitian] fails, it is a blow to all the Negroes of the world." Said one F. E. Croly, U. S. student: "The fault is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...Brunswick, Ga., came Rev. W. K. C. Redfern, Baptist minister and dean of Benedict's College, Negro institution, at Columbia, S. C. He is Paul Redfern's father, and together they mapped the course down the Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed...
Experts were pessimistic for his life. Paul Redfern was flying for the most part over unfrequented seas; some of the mountains and jungle had not been penetrated by explorers. He had no radio. Weather charts indicated unfavorable winds. Under the weather conditions it was figured he could not possibly reach Rio on his gasoline supply. Sixty hours after his take-off Redfern had not been heard from. His gasoline supply must have been exhausted. He was down somewhere. Just before he left he said: "Don't lose hope for my return for at least six months or more...
Realizing this, the Grand Central Galleries of New York held an exhibition early this summer aboard the Belgenland, showing landscapes, portraits, studies by contemporary U. S. artists (Murray Bewley, Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung...