Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolved, That we missionaries, pastors and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Philippines put ourselves on record and reaffirm our actions of 1922, that we are in entire sympathy with the national aspirations of the Filipino people...
...Jones holed out from 30 feet ? but so, with a last furtive twitch, did Hagen. For his 237 strokes (seven under an average of 4's, five under the pars played), he then collected what Amateur Jones would have shunned in any case?swag; of $6,800, a record for this type of engagement...
...Significance. These two volumes are not "memoirs." They consist of the letters and telegrams Colonel House wrote and those he received,* the gaps in the narrative being filled in from a journal or record of the substance of his important conversations, which during this period he dictated every evening to his secretary. The book is therefore no apology. From its nature it magnifies Colonel House, forces him to the centre of the stage. The result has already shown itself in criticism by the admirers of President Wilson. Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar of Tennessee last week exploded: "It is the grossest...
...such critics had best beware, for House's book will strike back at them. It is not a record of what House now wants the world to think. It is documentary evidence, prepared at the time, of what House actually did and said from 1912 to 1917. If House wrote Wilson in 1915 advising him not to do something, his letter carries a great deal more force than would a criticism by House today...
...Moscow, one Linton Wells, War-time U. S. naval aviation lieutenant, laid plans last week for a trip around the world in record time on which he will be accompanied in June by Edward S. Evans, wealthy Detroit sportsman. The travel time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam...