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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
Czechoslovakia's official press service soon fulminated that President Masaryk had never spoken as quoted by Dr. Rajniss, did not deny that the interview had taken place, could not down widespread belief that the President had sent up a trial balloon...
...Said Dun's Review last week: "Nothing has occurred to indicate that widespread trade recession is under way and statistics of railroad freight traffic show, week after week, that distribution of merchandise remains at a notably high level...
...possibly the remedy lies in a reaction among the alumni themselves. We note, for instance, in "The Harvard Alumni Bulletin," a strong protest against a proposed enlargement of the Harvard Stadium to meet the demand for seats at her major athletic spectacles. This and the more or less widespread movement to get rid of the professional coach are excellent omens. --New York Herald Tribune...
Remarque has taken a whole reading world into the front line trenches with him, and those readers have returned with the feeling that such horrors must not happen again. Probably no book of this type has ever created such a widespread impression or worked so profoundly for the cause of peace. In eight brief months, it has become a classic. Long since translated into English and French, it is now being published in twenty-four languages, so that those who have fought may recall the horrors of war, and that those who belong to the new generations may be forewarned...