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Naval authorities, less interested in records than in significance, hailed the cruise of the Lexington as evidence of far-sighted building. No British carrier (Glorious, Furious, Courageous) is so big or so fast as the U. S. Lexington, Saratoga. The Japanese Akagi and Kaga would be outdistanced in a day...
How can it be named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"-and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d-4th-" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of...
¶ Farther-sighted than any view-bordering, in fact, upon the visionary-was what Charles J. Thompson of Ohio saw in the elevation of Keynoter Fess. Bereaved backer of Senator Willis, loud admirer of President Coolidge, Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Fess: "All the rascals, high and low, will fade...
Such mad and quixotic propaganda is particularly obnoxious to the Holy See because it strains the proverbially good relations existing between shrewd, sleepy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of the French Republic and suave, far-sighted Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect...
Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, first of the adventurers, left England last Aug. 31 with Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin. They were last sighted over Ireland.