Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since you saw fit to call him "a large black fly in the ointment" [TIME, July 18] have you seen fit to mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement...
Among other aviators, Commander Richard E. Byrd offered unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman...
Said Edsel Ford last week: "Byrd is a great fellow. He is a gentleman, a scientist and altogether likeable. I enjoy being behind him in such enterprises." Said Commander Richard E. Byrd: "Both the Fords are fine people. Henry Ford is great because he dreams and has ideals and puts them into practice. It was a wonderful experience to talk with him." Each spoke after a conference in Detroit after which Edsel Ford said he would help financially to back a Byrd flight over the South Pole as he helped back him to the North Pole. The South Pole trip...
...University of Virginia, halls were swept for an Institute of Public Affairs, designed to air chiefly domestic problems of the U. S. Among the vigilantes scheduled to appear at Charlottesville, Va., were Governors Alfred E. Smith of New York, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, Director of the Budget General H. M. Lord; Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; various university presidents, senators past and present, Government experts, college professors...
...Herald Tribune left no doubt in the public mind but that Mr. Forrest is now in the best of standing. Mr. Forrest, like many another correspondent, had hurried last fortnight from Paris to Ver-sur-Mer on the Channel coast as soon as news was flashed that Flyer Byrd and comrades had come down there. Mr. Forrest was alert and daring enough to get a commercial pilot to whisk him off to the coast through the stormy night so that he arrived before any of his competitor-colleagues. Of this feat, said the Herald Tribune's unconventional editorial last...