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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lowden. Last week Indiana Republicans called on onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, asked permission to use his name as presidential candidate in the Indiana preferential primary in 1928. Answered Mr. Lowden: "All I can say is that I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency." Not long ago Mr. Lowden had told an Iowa delegation that "No man is too big to refuse the support of any state as a candidate...
Lieut. Balchen, 28, the youngest member of the America's crew, was born in Tviet Hopedale, Norway, received his flying training at the Norwegian Naval Academy. It was he who suggested to Commander Byrd that he use skis instead of wheels on his polar plane. Lieut. Balchen came to the U. S. in 1926 to serve as test pilot and engineer in Anthony Fokker's company...
...There seems now to be a group in the church itself which holds that the church may 'consider with open mind' sanctioning fornication among our young people with the use of birth control to guard against the coming of children. This is, in plain words, what the high-sounding phrase 'companionate marriage' means, and yet this proposal was mentioned as one to which consideration should be given at the recent church conference in San Francisco [Protestant Episcopal Church Congress] and its consideration is being commended by not a few professors in our universities...
...Secondly, the Church should cooperate with the findings of modern science, and urge the use of scientific discoveries which tend to the upward development of the race. If, for instance, in the light of modern knowledge, the upward development of humanity seems to point to a greater emphasis upon family life, then the Church should urge the latter to be maintained at all hazards. But if upward development seems to lie in any other direction, then to maintain the solidity of the family against it, is not being an intelligent guide. I am not saying which way science seems...
...Today the Navy lives princpally on hot air, manufactured ar spread by their Washington lobby -ONETIME COL. WILLIAM MITCHEL "What's the use of getting into an argument with a man who, on the face of it, doesn't know what he is talking about, and, if he did, couldn't tell the truth about it?" -ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON. This exchange of acrimonious accusations last week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME...