Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When this resolution reached the White House last week, the political air was full of similar sentiments, expressed for various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...Senate with something it had been expecting from him. Handing some papers to Vice President Dawes, he explained that they contained a report on unemployment in the U. S. as requested lately in the maiden speech of Senator Wagner of New York (TIME March 12). With the air of a man patting a pretty good bond on the back Secretary Davis said that while unemployment is "serious" it is "not so extensive or so grave as the estimates which have been generally circulated...
...this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
...House's four ladies, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, were among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...
...members of Congress some 250 Representatives and a score of Senators flew. Observers watched to see how Congress would deal with Representative Furlow's bill providing a separate promotion list and "just" pay for the Army Air Corps, for which Col. Lindbergh has spoken...