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Governor Byrd's widest claim to fame is his brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...
...Congress may of course protect the secrecy of telephone messages by making them, when intercepted, inadmissible in evidence in Federal criminal trials, by direct legislation, and thus depart from the common law of evidence. But the courts may not adopt such a policy by attributing an enlarged and unusual meaning to the Fourth Amendment...
...orderly soldiers of Chang's ally (nominally his subordinate) Yen Hsi-shan, the so-called "Model Governor" of Shansi Province. By Yen's orders certain of Chang Tso-lin's troops who had been preserving order in the city ad interim were allowed to depart with a Nationalist safe conduct, after their leader, General Pao Yulin, had partaken of a farewell ceremonious cup of tea. The Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved...
...aviator was Wilmer Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted to fly to England. One was slim Lou Gordon, mechanic, 26, in aviation since 1919. The third was a girl who looked exactly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...thus, while the captains and sergeants depart with a clean slate, there is no little gloom among the shops sartorial, tonsorial, and cosmetic that flaunt their signs around the Common. The great public continues its patronage, but, just as Harvard has said it will not employ their services, so Boston's police report that they need them...