Enforcements and protests shadow ABA Chicago meeting
At the American Bar Association’s Chicago session George W. Wickersham urged obedience to laws and cautioned against broad resistance while debates raged over the Eighteenth Amendment referendum. Hoover’s drought relief plan and credit banks were outlined as farm aid expanded nationally during the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bar Association
Chicago
George W. Wickersham
Wickersham
W. P. MacCracken, Jr
James F. Allshie
Idaho
Henry A. Bims
American Citizenship Committee
Federal Farm Board
Sims
Hoover
Federal Relief Committee
Agriculture Hyde
Alexander Legge
Paul Bestor
Federal Farm Loan Board
Roy Young
Federal Reserve Board
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
Treasury
Ogden Mills
Henry M. Robinson
First National Bank of
Los Angeles
R. H. Aishton
Evanston, Ill
American Railway Association
Washington
Federal Committee
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank System
Hyde
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Indiana
Ohio
Virginia
Missouri
Montana
Inter-Mountain Live Stock Growers’ Association
Endurance Flight Set Record Before Forced Descent
ALE JACKSON and Forest O Brine aboard St Lepis endurance flyers failed to stay aloft a thousand hours as threatened. They achieved a new mark of 647 hours 28 minutes 80 seconds before their motor developed trouble and forced an emergency landing. All hands and crew performed well with rapid radio coordination by other vessels saving the 917.
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Tahiti
Pacific Ocean
Matson
Ventura
Penybryn
Pagopago
American Samoa
San Francisco
Pacific
Ale Jackson
Forest O'Brine
St. Lepis
Hoover to Speak in Boston and Kings Mountain Anniversary
Darene Hoover will travel to Boston on October 6 to address the American Legion. He will ride a special train to the South and speak the next day at the Kings Mountain Battle anniversary. He may also visit Mexico or the Caribbean in October while finalizing tariff commission picks and the 1982 budget.
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Darene Hoover
Boston
American Legion
South
Battle of
Kings Mountain
Mexico
Caribbean
Tariff Commission
Van Lear Black Drowns at Sea Near New York Harbor
Wealthy publisher Van Lear Black is reported drowned after falling from his yacht Sabalo off the New York harbor while en route to a Chesapeake summer home. Searchers failed to locate him for two days as vessels planes and the dirigible Los Angeles scoured the area. Black, 55, famous aviator and world traveler, joined other notable deaths including oil operator Thomas B Slick and architect Louis Bourgeois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Lear Black
Baltimore Sun
Evening Sun
Sabalo
New York
Chesapeake
Los Angeles
Mr. Black
Europe
Dutch East Indies
South America
Thomas B. Slick
Oklahoma City
Louis Bourgeois
Chicago
Communists suffer losses as a town changes control in Ki angsi area
Dispatches report provincial troops slaughter 4000 Communists in western Ki angsi province and seize 2000 rifles. Meanwhile Communists capture Wusueh in Hupeh province, a Yangtze river port 25 miles above Kluklang, driving terrified inhabitants to flee.
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Cepase
Kiangsi
Wusueh
Hupeh
Yangtze River
Kluklang
Germany seeks Versailles revision as France opposes
The League of Nations will hear Germany’s request next month to revise the Versailles frontier. France vows strong opposition and rebukes revision of the Polish corridor. Kellogg nominated by American group for World Court justice.
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Germany
League of Nations
France
Herr Treviranus
Paris
Berlin
Stresemann
Poland
Prussia
Frank B. Kellogg
World Court
Union
Lady of the Haystack Mystery Across History
A historical sketch traces the enigmatic Lady of the Haystack near Bristol who lived four years in a haystack, rejected adults, spoke with a foreign accent to children, and died in 1801. It also notes later fiction about Mile La Frulen, the Austrian impostor linked to the tale, whose true identity remains unsolved.
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Alexandria
Matteawan
Bristol
Bourton
St. Peter's Hospital
Haystack
Britton
Gloucestershire
Southwark
Spain
Joseph II of
Austria
Francis I
Mile. la Frulen
France
Milo
la Frulen
Lisbon the Kernel of Portugal a City of Many Faces
Prepared by the National Geographic Society Lisbon is described as the kernel of Portugal with a harbor that welcomes large vessels and a mix of peoples from Phoenicians to Moors. The article notes its seven hills, tiled architecture, and modern commerce, alongside Celtic and Moorish types, and praises Portuguese hospitality, culture, and urban evolution amid earthquakes shaping its rebuild.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. Y Isbon
Republic of Portugal
Portugal
Vasco da Gama
India
Lisbon
Ulysses
Tagus
Europe
Felicitas Julia
Lusitania
Hispania
Byron
England
Brazil
Dis
Spain
Mediterranean
Cidade Baixa
America
Cidade
Roclo
Praca da Figueira
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Edith Edna Kell
Pittsburgh
Wildwood
N. J
Louisiana
Nova Scotia
Richard Bedford Bennett
Canada
Edward W. Pickard
Northwestern University
Philadelphia
Cuba
Edward §. Matthias
Ohio Supreme Court
New Orleans
Bom
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