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...Daniel Vincent Minister of Public Works...
This week its President, George E. Vincent, preparing to print his 1925 report, briefs the Foundation's activities: 1) Hookworm-aided 18 governments, treated nearly 1,500,000 victims, erected or rebuilt thousands of latrines. 2) Rural health-aided 220 U. S. counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad...
...pale but audacious Greenwich Village householder, named Edna St. Vincent Millay, once wrote, among other things, an imprudent quatrain in which she distilled a favorite notion...
Fortune dubbed Vincent Richards her knight last week, as the Franco-U. S. mixed team tournament ended on the courts of the Parisian Racing Club. Three sets went 7-5, 4-6, 8-6-the middle one to Rene Lacoste, the other two to Vincent Richards. Miss Wills bagged two sets from Mme.Rene Mathieu, 6-3, 6-4. Howard Kinsy took two sets out of three from Paul Feret, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. The Richards Lacoste play was uneven, ragged-served none the less to reverse Lacoste's triumph over Richards at Manhattan, last February...
...leading the expedition backed by citizens of Detroit, was in something of a hole but was summoning his final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought...