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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Private secretary to the Governor of a sovereign State is a position fraught with grave responsibilities. Captain Herman A. MacDonald of Boston has been finding this out lately. Capt. MacDonald is secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts. Last month, feeling facetious, Secretary MacDonald wrote and published a letter in which he called a fellow citizen a "Mexican General." The Mexican Consul at Boston took this as a national insult and demanded an apology from Governor Fuller (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minor Jobs | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Capt. Stephen N. Bobo, president of the Development Service Corp., knows how to build hotels; John McEntee Bowman, president of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp., knows how to operate hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bobo-Bowman | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...there a cautious transatlantic flier, then his name is Capt. Hermann Koehl, pilot of this German expedition. In this same ship, the Bremen, he started for America late last summer, got over Ireland, found the hazards impossible to negotiate, and turned back home to try again some happier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Or Heaven | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Or Heaven | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Arthur Spindler, a mechanic, no longer young, was Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War and worships the air his master flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Or Heaven | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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