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...action of the committee reducing the amount is a mistake. Mrs. Sheridan is the widow of General Phil Sheridan who had a wonderful record???Mrs. Sheridan is well along in years and in all human probability she will not enjoy the advantages of a pension for many years to come. I ask that the bill be approved in the original amount...
...spectators gathered around Philadelphia's Franklin Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record???9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
People who remembered the old non-stop record???the 2,520-mile flight from Mineola, L. I., to San Diego, made by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready in 1923 ?curled their lips. To that hazardous leap the ta,me to-and-froing of the Frenchman seemed like a little boys' game. Not so is the purpose for which this game was undertaken?a training test for a direct flight from Paris to New York. Landry, Drouhin, will attempt...
...known for some time that it was planned for him to imitate his father's record???a romantic touch that surely would appeal to the voters. First he was made a Lieutenant Colonel.* Then he was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Soon Governor of New York. Then?...
Furtwaengler is 38, a native Berliner, with a very impressive record???pupil of the boresome, but thorough, Rheinberger, theatre Conductor at L?beck and Zurich, successor of Artur Bodanzky at the Mannheim opera, Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna, successor of Richard Strauss at the Berlin Opera, Director of the Berlin Musikfreunde, of the Berlin Philharmonic, of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. On the score of previous experience, he holds his own with all newcomers...