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...Harlem, shouting, in purple clothes and fine fettle (see p. 29), other Negroes held a less riotous convention elsewhere in Harlem. These were the members of the fourth Pan-African Congress, who had gathered from the U. S., the West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince...
...research laboratories. The arrangement is quite like that kept by Western Electric Co. and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Federal Telegraph had assets, Dec. 31, 1925, of $5,715,383 and net operating profits for that year of $117,061. The acquisition of Federal Telegraph's Pacific Coast radio system seems to put the Mackay Companies in command of transpacific communications, and may put to naught Western Union's contemplated permalloy cable. Mackay Companies, through Commercial Pacific Cable Co., owns the only present transpacific cable. This cable operates between the U. S., Hawaii, the Philippines and China. Mackay...
...seizing, singlehanded, the 18-man crew and $500,000 liquor cargo of the S. S. Grey Point, British rum boat, one night last month in New York Harbor, Charles L. Duke, temporary ensign in the U. S. coast guard, was last week commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, by firm strokes of the presidential...
Some 400 miles east of Aden, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, a Commander Crauford of the British Navy found, he said, the lost city of Ophir, whence Solomon's navy fetched home 450 talents of gold? II CHRONICLES VIII...
...obtained a charter from the State of Illinois to establish in Chicago headquarters for her proposed "Navy of the Lord," evangelical organization to be modeled after the Salvation Army. Her tabernacles are to be called "Four Square Gospel Lighthouses," are to have towers imitative of the U. S. Coast Guard lighthouses. Mrs. McPherson, stout-hearted against mockery, is to call herself "Admiral." Her underlings will assume naval titles, naval-like costumes...