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Captains Kubala and Idzikowski, Polish aviators who plan a non-stop flight from Paris to New York, desired a talisman of potency and might. They made supplication therefore to the Premier of Poland for permission to paint his name on their plane. Last week, Marshal Pilsudski graciously consented...
...seen the 200-sovereign purse given by the mayor of Suva to help pay the debts of the white men. Brown noses pressed forward to inhale the perfume of garlands and of a floral American flag tenderly woven by little brown children. Brown fingers touched Waqavuka's talisman, the omnipotent Tambua, tooth of the sacred whale...
...Manhattan, Mr. Lowden had said: "I am not going to do anything to create bad blood." But in Chicago he was excited and emotional over what he said was the East's shocking disregard of Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen farm bill, containing the "equalization fee," talisman of the Lowden campaign, lay on President Coolidge's desk awaiting a probable veto. Mr. Lowden intensified the political significance of the bill by shouting...
...planes. With them climbed Hubert R. Knickerbocker, U. S. newspaperman representing the Hearst newspapers; also Baron Gunther von Huehnefeld, publicity man for the North German Lloyd steamship line. Both passengers were ignorant of airplanes. They took no mascots. Said Captain Koehl: "Gasoline, plenty of it, is your best talisman...
...sought out, courted by Europeans who know in what esteem President Calvin Coolidge holds silent but upstanding Dr. Klein. The President has said (TIME, April 11) that Julius Klein is the best informed man in the Government Service on the Administration's economic policy. Such words are a talisman to fame. When Dr. Klein reached Geneva, it was whispered that his are the ears of President Coolidge at the Economic Conference...