Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator...
...Navy, after having contributed nothing to Commander Richard E. Byrd's flight to the North Pole (TIME, May 17, 1926) later "picked him as a means of propaganda in the same way they have attempted to pick up Lindbergh...
...Byrd. At Roosevelt Field, Long Island, last week Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's triple-motored Fokker monoplane was poised for a flight to Paris, waiting only for contrary winds and an Atlantic fog to go away. George O. Noville, Bert Acosta and Berndt Balchen were eager to climb aboard. . . . Meanwhile, despatches from Paris said that Lieutenant Drouhin was ready to fly to New York, hoping to meet Commander Byrd and crew in mid-Atlantic...
...also inaugurated the Loyal Order of Woodpeckers, whose members will dedicate themselves to performing small but frequent economies, and "whose persistent tapping away at waste will make cheerful music in Government offices and workshops the coming year." He concluded his address with the following poetical quotation from Nancy Byrd Turner...
...publishing of this year's Harvard Hand-book will be in the hands of a committee headed by C. L. Allen '29. His assistants are T. H. Byrd '30, L. G. Bohmrich, ocC, L. D. Zorn '29, and R. S. Tennant...