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Eighteen years ago, another Democratic president was also determined to keep this country out of war. His name was Woodrow Wilson, and he went about the situation in a different manner. In those days, America was just beginning to attain recognition as an important power in the economic world, and she was proud of her newfound position...
...Football Squad, Dick Harlow and his assistants I wish a successful season, and I will continue to do all in my power to help to attain...
...Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand was responsible for this tragedy, that hand was mine...
...training organization where young native artists could gain operatic experience even if they happened to be named Smith or Jones or Johnson. Having sung patiently and courteously with such novices as Mary Lewis and Grace Moore, Manager Johnson wisely promised that young aspirants would have a chance to attain a "natural growth" in a supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented. If he has been accepted by the Metropolitan, he has been obliged to sing on the same stage with the greatest artists in the world who have poise and authority...
...Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen in years to attain to sainthood (TIME...