Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, called to order by Clerk William Tyler Page, promptly chose Nicholas Longworth as its Speaker for a third time. With 267 members in the majority and 163 in the minority, Republican Congressmen overflowed their side of the chamber. The air bumbled and rumbled with greetings and good cheer...
...mournful morning. The chill air held a thin mist as the French cruiser Tourville, escorted by the U. S. cruisers Marblehead and Cincinnati, passed Ambrose Lightship, moved somberly through Quarantine and up New York Harbor. On her quarterdeck, under the after gun turret, rested a flag-draped coffin of rosewood. Within the coffin lay the body of Myron Timothy Herrick, late U. S. Ambassador to France, going home...
...Texas") Guinan. She had just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce him. She read congratulatory messages from such friends as Manhattan's Congressman La Guardia, Henry Zittel...
...years European nations have been sending flyers to scout airways across Africa, across Asia. Last week England utilized its amassed information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...
...Clarence Marshall Young, director of aeronautics, U. S. Department of Commerce, returned from Europe last week where he has been flying his own plane while inspecting European air services. France's late Minister of Commerce and Aeronautics, Maurice Bokanowski, was killed last year while flying...