News Review of Current Events highlights Hooverists and transpacific flight
The piece surveys 1928 political maneuvers with Hoover candidacy, Indiana senator Watson favored by some as running mate, and Kansas City delegates. It covers Kingsford Smith and Ulm completing the first Pacific air crossing in the Southern Cross, facing storms and financial struggles, plus related WWI and international policy notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Watson
Indiana
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Watson
Kansas City
Hoover
Alifornia
Australia
Pacific Ocean
Charles Kingsford- Smith
Charles T. P. Ulm
Harry W. Lyon
James Warner
Arctic
Wilkins
Hawaii
Fiji Islands
Kingsford-Smith
Suva
Coral
Phoenix Group
Albert Park
Fiji
Naselai Beach
Brisbane
Loyalty Islands
New Caledonia
Sydey
Sydney
United States
Oakland
Honolulu
Kingeford-Smith
California
Hobby
Holm
Department of Aeronautics
Republican National Committee
Herbert Floover
Committee On
Secretary of Commerce
Mellon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Lowdon
Miss America Crowned Miss Universe at Galveston Pageant
Atlantic City abandoned its annual beauty contest while the International Pageant of Pulchritude in Galveston drew entrants from many states and foreign countries. Miss Ella Van Huesen of Chicago won Miss America and then Miss Universe, at age twenty two, noted for her tall figure and long dark hair. Other prize winners hailed from France, Italy, Colorado, West Virginia, Canada, Luxembourg, Ohio, San Antonio and Tulsa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Galveston
Texas City
Ella van Huesen
Chicago
France
Italy
Colorado
West Virginia
Canada
Luxembourg
Ohio
San Antonio
Tulsa
Sam Houston Colossus in Buckskin Highlighted
A national push to honor Sam Houston as a towering frontier figure. The piece lauds Elmo Scott Watson’s praise of George Creel’s biography and argues Houston’s deeds shaped Texas and the United States, noting Virginia Tennessee and Texas stake his legacy and his shared American impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Houston
Texas
United States
Sam Houston
San Jacinto
American Chronicle
George Creel
Buckskin
Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Hernando de Soto
New World
Kit Carson
America
Colossus
Southwest
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Utah
Union
Tohopeka
South
Virginia
Timber Ridge
Rockbridge County
Lexington
Samuel Houston
Daniel Morgan
Alléghenies
Tennessee
Prison Reform Plan Promotes Outdoor Punishment Change
Swedish prison authorities favor outdoor work and sunshine for inmates. A one year cell confinement for sentences over 20 years will be cut to six months. The officials argue isolation harms mental health and some cases of physical pressure lead to ruin. Prison farms are practical and will grow.
Celluloid Models Aid Testing of Bridges and Dams
The practice of building replicas of major engineering works like bridges and dams in celluloid to simulate performance has been common. These scale models, often costing thousands, are destroyed during tests to assess structural capacity under expected strains.
Beggs Method Allows Cheaper Celluloid Model Testing
Princeton professor George E. Beggs develops a method to test celluloid models in mercury, enabling the same information at a greatly reduced cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Beggs
Princeton University
Suspicious Cash Buyer Spurs Dealer Police Phone Call
An auto dealer reports a suspicious character at the lot who offers cash for a used car. The exchange includes a police station contact and a terse play by play of the interaction.
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Columbia University
New York City
Brule River
Wisconsin
Lodge
Pierce
Coolidge
Edward W. Pickard
Senate Campaign Fund Committee
Frank C. Lowden
Dawes
Smith
New York
Reed
John J. Pershing
Paris
Cherbourg
Chang Tso-Lin
Peking
Manchuria
Mukden
Chang
Hsi-shan
Shansi
Peking-Tientsin
Tientsin
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Taft
Holmes
Brandeis
Justice Butler
Justice Stone
Butler
Post Office Department
NCLB
Sam
Henry M. Blackmer
Denver
Teapot Dome
Blackmer
Continental Trading Company
Thuania
Vilna
League of Nations Council
Poland
Geneva
Zaleski
Koyno
Lithuania
Briand
Stresemann
Germany
SEMNA
Ahmed Bey Zogu
Albania
Noll
National Assembly
Mussolini
Balkany
Duce
Yugo-Slavia
Yugo- Slavia
Venice
Austria
Upper Adige
Andrew Jackson
Santa Anna
Lone Star Republic
Sam Housio
Lindermood
Pelinderwood
Sweden
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