Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, George Arthur ("Mike") Thorne Jr., ski and sledge man of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, grandson of the late George R. Thorne. co-founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Mrs. Elinor Gates Toerge, tennis player, trapshooter, golfer; at Brookville...
...affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
Richard Evelyn Byrd LL.D...
...mind on candidates. John Jacob Raskob's purposes were still obscure. A New York legislative committee had twelve months to investigate Tammany Hall and embarrass its candidate. None of the "favorite sons"-Ohio's Baker and Cox, Maryland's Ritchie, Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt's candidacy was too far "out in front" to beat. Owen D. Young's friends were working with covert vigor. Almost overlooked in the Roosevelt rush was the fact that a two-thirds...
...eastern route. Greenland has been attained by planes from North America or Europe three times before. Spitsbergen figured importantly in the Arctic flights of Wilkins, Byrd, Amundsen. But no plane has yet blazed a trail thence into the Orient. Greatest danger on either route: fog. The Lindbergh plane is radio-equipped. Mrs. Lindbergh, who qualified for a private pilot's license last fortnight, will share the controls...