Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byrd. Tom, Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tom and Harry went back to their respective jobs (Harry is Governor of Virginia), and their brother Dick went ahead with his ? getting men and freight shaken down, stowed and shipshape aboard the S.S. Chantier as she steamed from the pier. The freight was particularly troublesome, and the ship paused overnight off Staten Island before heading across the ocean for Tromso, Norway, where Dick ? Commander Richard E. Byrd ? will lay in whatever supplies or equipment he still needs for his flights next month...
...Dick and Harry shook hands in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. How were they related? (See SCIENCE...
...Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother, Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, "youngest U. S. governor, 38")?after all was in readiness, Lieutenant Commander Richard E. ("Dickie") Byrd journeyed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and boarded the good ship Chantier. There he saw to it that the Josephine was properly stowed below decks in a dismantled condition, showed his backers and friends over the craft on an inspection tour, and with 45 companions waved goodby as the Chantier slipped out of dock...
...Brooklyn last week a woman was elected President of a $5,000,000 corporation. Two other women were made her prime assistants. This seemed surprising. In a sense it was surprising, for even current civilization conceives women in business as mere factotums. Yet this woman-she is Mary E. Dillon, in her middle thirties-spent 23 years of apprenticeship with the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., which she now heads. A girl just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here...
...clubs were elected. Richard Thomas Flood '27 of Brookline was chosen President; Thorndike Dudley Howe '28 of Boston was elected Vice-president and William Brewster '28 of Lewisbury, West Virginia, Manager. Further elections were those of John Hill Monroe '27 of Brookline, Secretary-treasurer; John Casper Dreier '28 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Librarian William Charles Harris '28 of Chestnut Hill, Leader of the Banjo Club; Richard Bell Schneider '27 of Binghamton, N. Y. Leader of the Mandolin Club; Charles Edward '28 of Jamaica Plain, Leader of the Gold Coast Orchestra, and Arthur Andrews Holbrook '28 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Leader...