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...sheer personal triumph none of these occasions compared with a demonstration last week when Governor Murray shot across the Red River bridge he had fought for last summer and led a motorcade of 300 cars back to his Texas birthplace. Along the 40-mi. route to Collinsville, Texas farmers turned out to cheer him in the rain. Col. William Easterwood came from Dallas to Collinsville to introduce him to a huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon...
Back in Charleston that evening a mayor's committee humbly begged him to reconsider his decision. Day after he left to speak at the centennial celebration of Jacksonville, Fla., 64 mi. away from Lake City, where he was born 64 years...
...traveled in Italy, worked in Vienna. A performance of Puccini's La Boheme sent him to Paris to live. In intervals between struggling with advanced architecture he became a factory manager, publisher of L'Esprit Nouveau, and a painter. In 1923 he published his first book. Vers mi Architecture, which denned all his theories, has had an enormous influence on architects all over the world...
...Norwegians, Finns and Swedes, and counter protests by U. S. skaters when they were compelled to recon-test preliminary heats, Irving Jaffee won the 10,000-meter race. Young Emile St. Goddard, of Le Pas. Manitoba, out-mushed old Leonard Seppala and eleven other drivers in the exhibition 25-mi. dog sled race. Point standing of the Olympic hockey teams after each had played three of its eight games was: Canada, 6; U. S., 4; Germany, 2; Poland...
...burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third day the radio failed, its last message expressing thanks for the efficient communications but adding: "We had rather have a barrel of beer." On the sixth day the men were found alive, about 200 mi. south of In Salah, in the heart of the desert...