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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scarcely more than a dozen of the 446,726,752 subjects of George V knew until last week that during His Majesty's illness he has raved in delirium, suffered from a dry, cracked tongue, and turned a livid, bluish color-temporarily...
Little known is the fact that Poet-Flyer Gabriel d'Annunzio's son, Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, has been in the U. S. for several years representing the Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. Last week Captain d'Annunzio became a director of the American Aeronautical Corp., newly organized to manufacture Italian Savoia seaplanes and flying boats in this country...
Peculiar was the big duralumin plane delivered at the Newark, N. J., Field last week for testing. Its 46-ft. fuselage is 11 ft. wide, almost twice the ordinary width. Its nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines...
...Archbishop O'Connell was created Cardinal in 1911. Ten years later Archbishop Denis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia was elevated to the cardinalate. The only other cardinals in the U. S., Archbishop Patrick Joseph Hayes of New V ork and Archbishop George William Mundelein of Chicago, were both elevated on March...