Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actors' Equity Association; with the annual gold medal of the American Arbitration Association "for distinguished service in the establishment of commercial peace through arbitration"; in Manhattan. Previous medalists: Steelman Charles M. Schwab, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, Manhattan Realtor Frederick Brown, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd...
Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...
...some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...
...course it is obligatory that the accounts of the pioneering aviation triumphs of modern times be accurately reported. What must be decided is whether the account of an eyewitness or that of one whose knowledge is secondhand, will be the accepted one. It is true that Byrd's book "Skyward", in which he relates his various flights, leaves little room for doubt as to who was the center and soul of the moments that arose, and even impress the careful thinker to take portions of the book with a great deal of salt...
...flights are carried out, as well as the swiftness of action that is required, make it hard to weigh exactly the relative value of each man to the party, especially since all those concerned are men of exceptional ability in their field. Whether or not Fokker's criticism of Byrd will prove justified remains to be seen. As a general rule, however, deprecation of this kind does more harm than good, providing the press with welcome scandal, and jarring considerably that hazy quantity known as public confidence...