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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury acquitted the four hillmen of murder. Many a proud Arkansan, indignant at the publicity given such dark doings in the Ozarks, protested widely that they were not typical of their State, cited big city bombings and murder as equally fearful. The acquittal at Mountain View was hailed as a vindication for Arkansas...
...surprising," asked Earl Beatty in seadog peroration, "that there is apprehension among those who have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
Total P. E. membership (baptized persons), as given in the 1930 Annual...
...once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised from a sleep seemingly as sound as the bovine Louisa's and given performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...formidable Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with Joseph Lebrix) in 1928 for a globe-circling adventure which took them from Paris to St. Louis (Africa), to Port Natal (Brazil), all over South America, thence to New Orleans, Washington, San Francisco, then by boat to Tokyo, by air to China, Indo-China, Calcutta, Karachi, Aleppo, Syria, Athens, Marseilles...