Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Reporting: $1,000 to Russell Owen of the New York Times (Byrd expedition) and $500 to W. 0. Dapping of the Auburn, N. Y. Citizen (Auburn prison mutiny...
...Bide-a-Wee Home for Animals (Manhattan) announced it would award its medal for persons "who have rendered distinguished service in protecting animals" to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd in recognition of his devotion to his terrier Igloo...
History will record Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd not only as a dauntless expedition executive, as the first man to fly over both Poles, but as a character exceeded in lines of newspaper space during 1928-30 only by the U. S. President. For nearly two years the New York Times has carried a story on the activities of the Byrd expedition every day. By arrangement, 47 U. S. newspapers have done likewise...
...week, for the first time since he passed out of sight into the Antarctic, several million newsreaders were given a chance to see pictures of the man they had read so much about for the past 19 months. Photographed as he arrived at Dunedin, N. Z. last month, Admiral Byrd, in sweater and dungarees, seemed to have changed little. The last stage of the photographs' journey was characteristic of the entire Byrd press exploit. Sent by ship from New Zealand, the pictures were picked up in Cristobal, C. Z. by Airman Lee Schoenhair, flown to Tela (Honduras), to Miami...
...medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...