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After that the Army and carabineers joined in arresting Col. Grove and 500 Communist demonstrators on whom they pounced in the streets of Santiago. But what about the Air Force? When a bomb ing plane bore down on the Presidential Palace, General Moreno and his officers looked anxious. Suddenly the plane zoomed in salute. "Hurrah!" exulted brave Col. Bravo. "Take your partners ? the dance begins...
Died. Catherine T. Coll Wheelwright, 74, mother of President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State; after long illness; in Rochester, N. Y. An Irishwoman from Bruree, County Limerick, she bore President de Valera by her first husband (Vivian de Valera, a Spanish sculptor and musician long dead) hard by where Manhattan's Chrysler Building now stands...
Jessie Wood chose Lens-Grinder Mellish from among scores of applicants. She subsequently bore eleven children, nine living. Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and Mrs. Frost were Mrs. Mellish's first accoucheurs when her time came at the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
While Mr. Bennett was making his "bone-shaped" dog food and W'heatsworth's whole-wheat crackers, the tung trees in Florida grew tall, bore fruit. A group of important paint & varnish makers, in whose business the oil is a main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters...
...name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able to publish "A. E.'s" book of her flight to Wales, entitled...