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...Roebling company will be no novice at the job. Greatest of its great feats was the construction of Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge was the idea of John Augustus Roebling, the first U. S. engineer to use a steel strand in bridge-building. His foot was crushed in 1869 while making a preliminary survey for Brooklyn Bridge and 18 days later he lay dead of tetanus infection. The work was carried on by his young son Washington Augustus Roebling. an engineer proud of his Civil War-earned rank of Colonel. His specialty was caisson construction and he spent much time...
...signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...
...student sue his father for a college education? Last fortnight one tried it. He was William Volkmar Scharr Smith, son of Augustus Volkmar Scharr Smith, a Manhattan lawyer who once handled the affairs of Tammany Boss Richard Croker. Four years ago Student Smith entered the University of Colorado at Boulder. For part of his expenses he got loans from Boulder banks on the strength of a verbal agreement, later confirmed in writing, by which he claimed his father had agreed to defray them. Student Smith also helped support himself by waiting on table, tending furnaces. Tall and heavyset, he became...
...oldsters were retired Broker Alan Ramsay Hawley, a round-faced, grey-haired gentleman who won the International in 1910; and famed old Aeronaut-Poet Augustus Post, an arresting figure of lordly carriage, with grey trowel beard, curling mustaches and somewhat rambling speech. He was Mr. Hawley's co-pilot on the 1910 flight in which they made an unofficial distance record which has never been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced...
...Club Royale de Belgique posted the second-cup which stood only until 1928, fell to the U. S. In return for Belgium's courtesy the Detroit Board of Commerce gave the third trophy, now en route to Washington. Of the group in the Roosevelt Hotel room, Augustus Post had best reason to remember Clifford Harmon. Together in 1909 they had ballooned from St. Louis to Edina, Mo. for a 48-hr. U. S. duration record which still stands. Next year Harmon made another endurance record, which does not survive. It was in an airplane, first flight across Long Island...