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...usual "March Blizzard" tucked south-east England under a twelve-inch snow blanket last week, stopped air services to the Continent, forced the Admiralty to keep coastal guns firing at Dover, because above the screech of the gale ordinary fog signals could not be heard...
According to the Peace Treaty of Trianon (closed between Great Britian, France. Italy, Japan, as well as the Associated Powers and Hungary) the greatest part of South-East Hungary, the Historic Transylvania with more than 1,700,000 Hungarians was given to Roumania...
...field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...
...proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers...