Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harold McMillan Bixby, president of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis, Mo., and Harry B. Knight, of Knight, Dysart & Gamble of St. Louis. Both were backers of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...Wall Street, were last week seized with the same idea. Each of them suddenly became air-minded; each of them wanted to stow away, or play with, a few shares of air stock. True enough, they had played intermittently with air stocks since the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, but never as they did last week...
...Boal '31, of Winnetka, Ill., has been named chairman of the Regatta Committee. Boal is a graduate of the North Shore Country Day School. The Regatta Committee is to be composed of Bruce Wallace Hislop '31, of Troy, New York; David Riesman Jr. '31, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Geoffrey Augustus Sawyer '31, of Arlington...
Fortunately, Lieut.-Commander P. V. H. Weems, U. S. N., is a good-humored fellow of wit, charm and a grin. Fortunately, because he has been chosen to teach the difficult science of navigation to the one man who by reputation and instinct apparently knows plenty about it: Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...United States these bitter words aroused echoes. Discontented citizens took up the accusation. A feeling that aviation was unscrupulous, newspapers debased, that the public had been hoaxed, even that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had lent a hand to this nefarious business sprang up. Letters poured in to the newspapers demanding explanations. Was it just a publicity stunt? Why was not the serum used, if it was needed? Why did it have to be sent dramatically from Manhattan by air when Montreal was known as a great medical centre? What was the pretty touch about sending the white mice...