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Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...professional etiquette by writing and signing three "exclusive articles" for the Pittsburgh Press in advance of his committee's report to the Senate. The Gooding nature explained this. Born in England, he made his way as an immigrant boy in Idaho and raised a fortune in sheep. Stolid, foursquare, unoriginal, he was a good conservative Governor for Idaho in 1905-07, when the state was worried about the I. W. W. He lacks the discrimination of his statesmanlike colleague but what he sees within a few feet of his nose, he sees clearly, and names boldly. Thus, coming upon...
William Randolph Hearst has built another house. It is a squarish house, stolid, concrete, spotted with wide windows, utilitarian. It cost $3,000,000. The money was mostly spent for speed...
...from there to the West. They were a curious company. Dressed in the style of the early 19th century, they remained totally impervious to the appraising stares of approximately 750,000 persons. Some of the twelve women had their children with them; some of them carried bundles. With the stolid determination of explorers or pioneers, they pursued their way through the flat lands of the Middle West, through the northern plains, through the Southwest...
...then ordered his bags packed, and set out for Geneva to enlist the Council's aid. Simultaneously, Marshal Pilsudski was said to have declared that he might "at any moment" hurry after Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, who was charged with representing his country on the Council. Even stolid Swiss were appalled at the possibility that Premiers Pilsudski and Valdemaras, both choleric characters, might meet like colliding comets in the musty League Secretariat building. Meanwhile many a U. S. citizen asked: "What's the trouble between Lithuania and Poland?" Perennial Quarrel. Poland and Lithuania are both states which...