Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President came Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of the Northern Pacific R. R., Hale Holden, President, and Charles E. Perkins, General Manager, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. They discussed the proposed merger between the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, a question which the Interstate Commerce Commission will later decide...
Such, briefly, are the features of the new Navy dirigible designed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron and awarded first prize ($50,000) in the Airship Competition Board's contest for the best dirigible design. The Board, headed by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, has recommended that the contract for constructing the ship be also given to the Goodyear company, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has approved the recommendation. Should the Goodyear company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting...
...personally. I understood that women are not required to bear arms in the United States." In view of Mme. Schwimmer's prominence among pacifists, this answer may well have been considered pert by naturalization authorities. At any rate, her application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization board) citizenship on grounds that she was "lacking in nationalistic feeling" and also because she had announced herself as an atheist. Her attorney, William B. Gemmill, said he would appeal to the U. S. District Court. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberals have interested themselves...
They left the municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused...
...that Dean Mathey, Princeton, N. J., had been elected trustee of Princeton University from the Second Region (comprising Manhattan and the State of New Jersey). This region sends more sons to Princeton than any other. Yet Mr. Mathey (of the class of 1912) is the youngest member of the board of trustees, was selected from a field of six candidates, "after the most spirited voting in the history of the University." Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City...