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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Champions of Mr. Eastman could say that, like the Rockefellers, he is spreading his philanthropies internationally. Two years ago, when after his African camera-hunting trip he visited London as guest of Baron Riddell and Sir Philip Sassoon, Prince of Wales's crony, he saw that the city needed a first-rate U. S.-type dental clinic, he donated $1,300,000 as a "mark of affection and admiration for the British people...
...great red airplane landed last week in northwestern Manchuria near the Siberian border, where Chinese and Russians have been fighting off and on for three months (TIME, July 22 et seq.). Two grimy men clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them...
There will be a Fire Drill in three minutes, children. The Eighth Grade will form in two orderly lines in front of Escape 16. . . . Good morning, pupils. Attention. Stand. Now the morning calisthenics will begin. . . . Will Charles Robbins, Room number Nine, please report to the Principal's office. . . . Charles Robbins...
...Kippur (Day of Atonement), Jewish holiday, vigil of fasting and repentance. Oct. 15-Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes leaves New York on yacht lamara for two-month European cruise...
...arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...