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...error. TIME quoted Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois as follows: "Caesar had his Brutus, Jesus Christ had His Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small...
...there is a paragraph called "Corruption" in which the comparison is made between "Caesar and his Brutus, Jesus Christ and his Judas Iscariot, the United States and its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois and Len Small." While this quotation is from a statement made by Representative J. Bert Miller of Illinois, it is repugnant to your Southern readers that the name of Jefferson Davis should be associated with such names as these...
Byrd. At Roosevelt Field, Long Island, last week Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's triple-motored Fokker monoplane was poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...
...last week, spoke Representative J. Bert Miller, addressing the General Assembly of Illinois on Governor Lennington Small of Illinois...
...named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...