Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MacMillan's radio communication with the U. S. continued uninterrupted, the short-wave (40-metre) set being used. In addition to code reports, by MacMillan and Flight-Commander Richard E. Byrd, to the National Geographic Society and the Navy Department, U. S. operators even picked up, indistinctly, a musical program by the Peary's rough and ready orchestra, a speech by MacMillan, weird chants that the Bowdoin's operator explained were Eskimos singing...
...some 25,000,000) of the U. S. citizens eligible to vote, who failed to vote (TIME, Nov. 24) in the election for President last fall. But on Aug. 4 Virginia is to hold her Democratic Primary for Governor- a hot-fought election between two state senators, Mapp and Byrd, hinging largely on questions of personal integrity. Last week three Virginian women were in Florence, Italy. One of them took train, hastened to Paris, got a ballot from the U. S. consul, voted by mail, and hastened back with two other ballots so that her mother and cousin might vote...
...Meantime Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, in charge of the Naval Air Unit assigned as coöperators to MacMillan's expedition to chart unknown polar regions for Science and the National Geographic Society (TIME, June 22 et seq.), reported his plans in detail to Washington...
MacMillan's party also heard from Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Navy. The latter telegraphed to Commander R. E. Byrd of the Navy unit which is cooperating with the explorer, but not under his command, that, unless the three seaplanes taken were equipped with a regulation Navy aero radio set, they were not to take flight from the base ship. If the sets could not be installed, Byrd was to return with his command...
...Byrd had left his Navy sets behind at Boston and again at Wiscasset during the preparations, either persuaded that they were superfluous or that the boats had no room for 2,000 Ib. more freight. Therefore, the destroyer Putnam was despatched to Sydney with the missing sets, MacMillan assured the Navy Department they would be installed. Soon after the expedition was steaming for Battle Harbor, Labrador, with it going Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, physician-missionary to the Eskimos, returning to his Battle Harbor Mission for the summer...