Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U. S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down...
...Major Robertson admired Italy's Monza course near Milan, thought a similar course near New York City might be a profitable venture. Three years ago he found a suitable spot-old Roosevelt Field, named for Roosevelt Fs aviator son Quentin, killed in the War, the field whence Lindbergh. Byrd. Chamberlin ct til. took off for Europe...
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
...yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into shallow water, dodging among rocky islands...
...what oral explanations their leaders gave. So weary were they, however, that they laughed, applauded, made speeches showing that they really did not know what they were voting on, then passed it, 221-to-98. More deliberate was the Senate : 3½ hours were devoted to debate. Senator Byrd of Virginia and other opponents who had studied it, explained with fatigue how bad they thought it was. Then the Senate passed it, 42-to-29. Thus 48 hours after it appeared in the world the Revenue Act of 1936 became...