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...nations signed the Kellogg-Briand pact, renouncing war as a means of settling international disputes. Next year, Frank Billings Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring it. Last week, in St. Paul, Statesman Kellogg, 81, died of pneumonia (see p. 41). His death and that of onetime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker coincided ironically with his country's gravest international crisis since 1917, a crisis caused by the war between China and Japan upon which the only discernible influence of the Kellogg Pact was the fact that both sides had politely refrained from declaring...
...main American Airlines route across the country slants off from Newark southwest through Washington and Memphis to Fort Worth, then skirts the Mexican border and enters Los Angeles from the south. American also has a line from Chicago to Los Angeles through St. Louis and Fort Worth. According to the advertisement, on these runs the average altitude is precisely 1,101 ft., and therefore is the best way to fly to Los Angeles...
...Manager Mack's first great team - with the famed "$100,-ooo infield" of Frank Baker. Jack Barry, Eddie Collins, Stuffy Mclnnis-was not assembled until 1910. In five years they breezed through four American League pennants, three world championships. In 1914 Philip Ball, late owner of the St. Louis Browns, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair and the Ward Baking Co. backed the organization of a third major league, the Federal League, with clubs in Chicago, Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Buffalo, Newark, Brooklyn. With fat salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When...
Died. Frank Billings Kellogg, 81, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1924), Secretary of State under President Coolidge, co-author of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; of pneumonia; in St. Paul, Minn...
...French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built on the Missouri River at St. Charles, Mo., and her cause for beatification was approved by the Church nearly three years ago (TIME, March 25, 1935). Out last week was a readable and exhaustive 809-page chronicle of the order in North America by Mother Louise Callan, one of the order's most scholarly minds...