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...dark on the Carquines bridge in California. It was dark on the Natural bridge in Virginia. Suddenly along both bridges flashed rows of lights. In the Navy Department at Washington a radio operator had touched a button. Before touching the button he had received from President Coolidge, aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower, a radio message saying that the button should be touched...
Onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor party, had recovered sufficiently, last week, from his recent illness in Philadelphia to step aboard the Cunarder Berengaria at Manhattan, for the voyage home which would close his U. S. visit (TIME...
...Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance Gibson. Thus guarded, she left Italy for an English destination kept rigidly secret lest misguided vengeance follow...
...hangar. The plainsfolk, awed, were so quiet they could hear the gurgle of 1,000 gallons of gasoline which were promptly put into the White Bird. Its engine was tested?roared magnificently. Soon Captains Nungesser and Coli gave it a final inspection. Soon they kissed relatives, mechanics, engineers; climbed aboard, while French soldiers with bayonets kept the crowd at a distance. Engineer Carol, designer of the White Bird, fell to the ground, weeping, as the plane left the soil of France...
...Right Honorable James Ramsay Macdonald was indeed aboard, bound for Southampton and the U. S. A crowd of friends, most of them potent Laborites, stood tip-toe on the platform to shout Godspeed. Ramsay Macdonald's head- a tousled mop of silver-bobbed in friendly fashion from the door of his compartment. Beside him, flushed and laughing, stood apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, his wholesome daughter. "Ishbel," the onetime Premier had chuckled to newsgatherers, "Ishbel has always been keen to visit the United States. She wants to motor out to Mount Vernon when we get to Washington because...