Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided...
...Stockholm, Sir Alan Garrett Anderson, acting president of the International Chamber of Commerce congress, made an eloquent appeal for tariff reductions: "We generally speak as if someone besides ourselves were responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests...
...Alan Ian Percy, Eighth Duke of Northumberland, Earl Percy, stoutly voiced the attitude of the landed peerage, saying: "The House of Lords is the last line of defense against the forces of anarchy and chaos. ... It would be folly to leave the Constitution of the House of Lords indefensible...
...Lampoon announces the election of Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. '29 of Boston and Roger Whedon '29 of Jamaica, New York, to the Literary Board, and of Richard Stedman Holden '29 of Bennington, Vermont, Harrison Lewis '29, of Beverly Hills, California, Edward Reynolds McPherison Jr. '29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Eugene Gilbert Kraetzer Jr. '29, of Lexington, Massachusetts, to the Business Board...
...Arnold '27; E. T. Berkeley '28; A. W. Bettigole '28; E. L. Bleiwerss '28; S. A. Buckingham '27; A. H. Chase '27; R. F. Courtney '29; R. C. Darling '29; Engene Eisenmann '27; D. G. Fisher '27; J. S. Frame '29; Carl Ginsburg '28; Israel Hoffman '28; Alan Holski '27; E. M. Hoover Jr. '28; M. I. Katz '27; W. A. Koshland '28; Harold Lamport '29; H. D. Lavine '29; O. S. Loud '29; C. L. Lundin '29; W. H. McMaster Jr. '29; F. G. Mantle '28; E. W. Moore '29; R. H. Norris '29; W. F. Ridout...