Word: brett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help...
Next day, on page three of Frank Brett Noyes's dignified Star appeared a three-column ad headed: TRUTH ALONG WITH SPEED. That picture "in an afternoon paper yesterday," the Star snorted, was not Hughes's plane in Minneapolis but Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Field before the takeoff. Proudly the Star reprinted its genuine shot of Hughes in Minneapolis...
...city of 500,000 population except Washington, D. C. has five daily newspapers. Result has been that only one- Frank Brett Noyes's stodgy Star-has made money; seldom have they achieved any particular journalistic distinction. Five years ago among the least distinguished was the Post. When former Federal Reserve Board Governor and RFC Chairman Eugene Meyer bought the rundown property in 1933 for $825,000, few thought that a banker, entering the publishing business at the age of 57, would make newspaper history...
William T. Cushwa -- Miss Priscilla Brett, Brookline...
...Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington Star, was elected president of the Associated Press. Each year since then, Mr. Noyes has been unanimously reelected. This week, nearing the age of 75, he retired. As head of a news-gathering agency whose 1,400 newspaper members make it one of the two greatest in the world, Frank Noyes for 38 years had carefully avoided expressing opinions on public questions. "Circumstances compel me to be an intellectual eunuch," he explained...