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...peace strength) of the Division aboard 525 trucks and batteries of 75's rolling along at 30 m.p.h. on balloon tires. An unmotorized division could not have made the required march in less than 24 hours. The Germans in their record-breaking march through Belgium reached the unheard of figure of 20 miles a day. The motorized First Division, frequently flagged to a halt by umpires who told the advance units of "enemy fire," "gas shells," etc., reached its objectives before noon. The mechanized cavalry penetrated 30 miles in less than two hours. One of the brigades...
...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
...small favors. He looks kindly on the New York Times because he thinks it alone gives him a fair break. His best newshawk friend is Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Recently a story went the Washington rounds to the effect that Senator Long did the unheard-of thing of calling informally on Correspondent Anderson at his home one evening, accompanied by two bodyguards carrying "violin cases." "Just dropped in for a chat," said the Senator. "Don't mind the boys here. They just look big because they have a couple of submachine guns along...
Last May Publisher Agnelli opened La Stampa's new 19,000,000-lire ($1,600,000) building, a model plant with the latest presses, telephoto receiving apparatus and even television rooms. Last month he plunged far ahead of his competitors with a venture unheard of in the U. S. He supplied each of La Stampa's foreign bureaus with portable wireless sets to flash photographs to the Turin plant...
While one cannot blame an architect of 1850 for a so-called "restoration," when such things were unheard, of as applied to architecture in this country, yet it is unfortunate to continue the idea so many people have today--that Holden Chapel has been restored, and is, on the exterior at least, as it was in 1745. As a matter of fact, the building bears very little resemblance to the Chapel of 1745. In the first place, the doorway to the building, as seen in the Paul Revere engraving of Harvard, was on the West end and extended almost...