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...Moscow strong-jawed General Vassili Blücher, commander of Red troops in Siberia, spoke just as bluntly to the All-Union Communist Party Congress, and made no retractions afterward...
...thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians. In the World War he was one of the eight original U. S. members of the Escadrille Lafayette. He got into 40 dogfights, brought down nine German...
...September 23, 1911 at an aviation meet near Garden City, L. I., Earle Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think...
...took the degree of electrical engineer at M. I. T. in 1904, became interested in aviation in 1910 while reporting the First International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, L. I. for the New York Times. Two months later he sailed for Europe to be taught to fly by Louis Blériot, first man to fly the English Channel.* In another three months he took his "brevet," or pilot's license from the F. A. L, brought the first racing Blériot to the U. S. and began to take one prize after another for first flights...
...Blücher Palace at Berlin, new home of the U. S. Embassy, was destroyed by fire. Only the commercial attache, H, Lawrence Groves, had been installed in the building. He & family fled...