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Onward - during the night - to Meacham, Ore., went the Presidential party. There in the hamlet on the old Oregon Trail, high up in the Blue Mountains, the President was treated to a pageant in honor of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Trail. Oregon would like the Federal Government to make the Trail a great highway. The state has also a $50,-000,000 irrigation plan for the Government, known as the Umadillo project...
...Special, and the President and Mrs. Harding, with the Governors of Washington and Oregon, drove in an old Concord stage coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that...
Even with the increased appropriation announced by the Premier, England's air forces will be far behind those of France in number of squadrons and men. But perhaps the most effective British reply will be in the line of superior technical achievement. Spectators of the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon, London, were given during the week a remarkable exhibition of the most recent military planes. Among other exhibits was a bomber equipped with a single engine of 1,000 horsepower, the most powerful airplane engine in the world, which can beat in speed and climb any bomber ever...
...taken part in the work of the 47 Workshop. He is the editor of a history of the American Field Service and a memorial volume of the same organization, and has done considerable newspaper writing on dramatic subjects. In 1920 he served as assistant director of the Plymouth Pageant, While in college he was an editor of the Lampon; and he is a member of the permanent class committee of the class...
...pyramids or Swiss Chalets; but the villages of prehistoric cliff dwellings in the Mesa Verde National Park have been found quite as interesting, while the great ranges about Mount Rainer are thought to compare favorably with the Swiss Alps. As for the animal life in the Yellowstone, the majestic pageant of the Grand Canyon, the giant groves in the Sequoia, Europe can nowhere offer parallels. The Harvard trip, in touring this western country, will not only give its explorers a suggestion of the extent and resources of their country but prove to them that Americans can go abroad in their...