Women Aviator Amelia Earhart Lands in Ireland After Solo Crossing
Amelia Earhart, now Mrs. G P Putnam, completed the first solo Atlantic flight by a woman, landing near Culmore after 14 hours 54 minutes. She set a new distance record for women at 2026.5 miles and received ovations in London and at Hanworth Airdrome.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Amelia Earhart
G. P. Putnam
Ireland
Atlantic
Culmore
Londonderry
Harbor Grace
N. F
Wilmer Stulz
Lou Gordon
Mrs. Putnam
Hoover
MacDonald
London
Mellon
Hanworth
Ruth Nichols
R Joseph France Captures Oregon Delegates in Nomination Race
R. Joseph France of Maryland, a Republican aspirant, won Oregon's thirteen delegates to the convention while losing his home state to Hoover. The ten Oregon Democratic votes will back Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Texas
Hoover
Washington
Deets Pickett
Franklin Roosevelt
Senate
House
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Alfred ®. Smith
Albert O. Ritchie
Maryland
Wilbur L. Cross
Connecticut
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Alanson B. Houghton
New York
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
William H. Crocker
San Francisco
Charles Nagel
St. Louis
Roland 8. Morris
Philadelphia
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Milwaukee
Norman H. Thomas
James A. Maurer
Pennsylvania
Thomas
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Chicago
William Z. Foster
James W. Ford
Alabama
R. Joseph. France
Oregon
Mr. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lausanne reparations talks risk indefinite delay through 1929
M Herriot voices belief that the Lausanne conference on reparations will not produce firm results before early next year. France backs a temporary Hoover moratorium extension and likely turns decisions to expert commissions for possible fall reports. Herriot supports a program of national security arbitration and disarmament to preserve European solidarity and avoid French taxpayer burden.
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Great Britain
Edouard Herriot
Paul Boncour
France
Andre Tardieu
League of Nations
Japanese cabinet formed after Inukai assassination
Admiral Makoto Saito completed a Japanese cabinet to replace the government after Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated. Gen. Sadao Araki remains minister of war, and Saito will temporarily take foreign affairs. Gen. Yoshinori Shirakawa died after wounds from a bomb attack.
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Makoto Saito
Tsuyoshi Inukai
Sadao Araki
Admiral Saito
Yoshinori Shirakawa
Shanghai
Union
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Edward W. Pickard
Ways and Means Committee
Bingham
Borah
Enator
William B. Borah
Idaho
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Barbour
New Jersey
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Fred Britten
Hawaiian Islands
Army
Navy
Granville Fortescue
Thomas Massie
Honolulu
Douglas MacArthur
Floyd Gibbons
N. M. Butler
Jim Watson
Harrison
Mississippi
P. B. Carey
Chicago Board of Trade
Hyde
Federal Farm Board
Congress
Carey
J. G. Stone
Farm Board
Hofstadter Legislative Committee
Jimmy Walker
Samuel Seabury
Equitable Coach Company
Paul Block
Walker
Wall Street
Europe
Rodman Wanamaker
Equitable Trust Company
M. Herriot
Little
Frank
Emporium
Fanny
Finney
Michael
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