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Great throngs rushed to Geneva. The Secretariat of the League under the direction of Sir Eric Drummond, was a hive of industry. Statesmen, politicians, journalists, interested spectators seized every available accommodation that the venerable city could offer. More people were there than have ever been at any time in its whole history. All the great nations of the world (except the U. S., Russia, Germany) sent delegations, and, with those delegations, families and secretaries, stenographers, etc. In two days it was estimated that 20,000 people had poured into the city. Among the notables present were: Premier MacDonald, Premier Herriot...
...tears out of the emotional listener, but few composers have succeeded in pulling a laugh. Not even jazz can do it. Cowell thus promises to become the progenitor of a race of U. S. musicians exclusively devoted to the Comic Muse. France has already started such a line with Eric Satie and his followers, the "Group...
Substitutes: Eric Pedley, Midwick Country Club, Calif.; Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Earle Hopping, Bryn Mawr...
...Thomas N. McCarter, wife of the President of the Rumson Country Club, awaited the victors in front of the clubhouse. When they rode up, she presented her congratulations and a trophy to each of the following: E. G. Miller, A. P. Perkins, C. F. Burke, Eric Pedley, likely member of the U. S. "Big Four" (TIME...
...three planes took the air, pointing their noses north. Almost immediately they become separated; the fog was impenetrable. Hopeless of keeping their course, and fearing a collision, two planes-those of Lieuts. Smith and Wade-wheeled and turned back toward Scotland. One, the New Orleans of Lieut. Eric Nelson, kept on. Over 500 miles of icy and puckered water, through the confusing mist-banks, the New Orleans flew like a bodiless falcon, invisible, intrepid, swift. At first Lieut. Nelson feared that the course was lost Then he sighted the Billing sley, from which he took his direction...