Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood, son of the late Representative Henry D. Flood of Virginia, and C. Bascom Slemp, the President's oldtime (1923-25) private secretary, called and offered the Swannanoa Country Club, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, only four hours from Washington. . . . President Coolidge thanked...
...swirled among Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...
Picturesque Bert Acosta, who later flew to France with Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...
...each end of the earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...
Backstage, an official rushed by with the news that Commander Byrd had arrived and there was no committee on hand to meet him Consequently the reporter stepped into the breach, as a committee of one, and upon reaching Commander Byrd was confronted with the request for a pin. Confusion reigned until Abraham Lincoln, soon to appear with George Washington in a benefit tableau, extracted a pin from his costume and satisfied the need...