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Word: byrds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Byrd. Twelve nations sent envoys to the Coronation. First to arrive was Special Ambassador Herman Murray Jacoby. Born 38 years ago in Germany, two years ago he sold out his Manhattan bond house, announced that he had retired "to cultivate my hobbies," proceeded to explore Brazil's Amazon, turned up in Abyssinia last week as President Hoover's representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Coronation | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Three moving picture films: Ben Hur, The King of Kings, With Byrd at the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Coronation | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Married. Bernt Balchen. pilot for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on trans-Atlantic and Polar flights; and Emmy Soerlie, of Brooklyn; at Coytesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

When Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd named an Antarctic range the Charles Bob Mountains, most people were mystified. The Rockefeller Mountains and Marie Byrd Land had been understandable. But who was Charles Bob? Investigators learned that he was a tall, broad-shouldered, genial man of 42 with the middle name of Victor who had come to Manhattan's financial district from the West, maintained luxurious offices at 120 Broadway. In these offices he busied himself over the affairs of many enterprises, three of which especially stood out. One was Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., long involved in a raucous patent squabble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rainbow Man | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...foremost daily recorder of expeditions to remote spots upon the earth and off it-cloud-piercing peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered in the modern' explorer and aviator an excellent anodyne to our disappointing and humdrum life. Ephemeral their exploits may be, but for the time that they are chronicled I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good Old World | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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