Word: al
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airman Harmon, monied amateur, is by no means unknown to persons less air-unconscious than Baron Cushendun. A contemporary of the Wrights, Curtis, Bleriot, Farman et al., and an ardent balloonist, he now lives in Paris where he attends to the affairs of the International League of Aviators. Most potent of these affairs is the annual presentation of the ornate Harmon trophy for achievement in aviation. Recent recipients of the trophy include...
...reminded that Al Smith was looking for a scientific definition for an intoxicating beverage and it may be that Senator Jones was the scientist for whom he was seeking...
Given by C of the potent ABC nations of South America, the dinner was an important affair. Present were, among others, eight members of the Cabinet, four ambassadors, four Senators, nine ministers, four Congressmen, three Hoover secretaries, two admirals, the Mayor of Philadelphia, et al. et ux. The setting was magnificent-a patio with orchids, palms, exotic birds, tropical fish. The dinner was also notable in that...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President of the Associated Press Frank Brett Noyes (Republican), Steelman Charles Michael Schwab (Republican), Lawyer John William Davis (Democrat), et al...
...Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth...