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...Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Spanish playwright (Cradle Song, Kingdom of God) Litt.D...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will swing through the national parks for a holiday at his Sierra Nevada Mountain camp...
...Slavery, by Lady Kathleen Simon (wife of Sir John), London, 1929 (Hodder & Stoughton). Her well-documented slavelands list: Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Arabia, Sierra Leone, Liberia; also ("modified slavery") Portuguese East Africa, Portugal's West African Islands St. Thome & Principe, French Equatorial Africa, Tanganyika etc. Lord Cecil recently estimated that there are at least 5,000,000 human slaves today. Liberia's estimated population, including freemen...
...great lines of migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat...
...West Africa, would benefit greatly by American intervention, according to Dr. Richard P. Strong of the Harvard Medical School, who headed the Harvard African Expedition of 1926-27. In his account of the social conditions of the country, recently published by the University Press, Dr. Strong compares Liberia with Sierra Leone, which like Liberia was settled with the idea of founding a home for freed slaves. He declares that although the populations of the two countries are almost the same, Sierra Leone has over four times the amount of trade and revenue, and only one sixth the public debt...