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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh has not flown from England to Australia in a series of hops lasting 15 days. That feat was performed by Australian Aviator Harold ("Bert") Kinkier. Last week, at Canberra the new Capital of Australia, a renowned British financier compared the feats of "Lindy" with those of "Bert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Lindy v. Bert | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Last week in Atlanta, Ga., at the annual putting-heads-together of William Randolph Hearst's 27 newspapers, a genial 54-year-old colonel was introduced. He was the new general manager, William Franklin Knox, with complete charge of editorial and business policies, responsible to no order except the occasional bulls of Mr. Hearst. Not since the ascendency of Solomon Solis Carvalho in 1917 had a Hearstling been given such wide powers. Col. Knox is a believer in tabloid journalism. Also he is expected to tour the U. S. with an eye to making the Hearst dailies more intensely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst Manager | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...announcement says that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, C. O. Whitney, R. L. Brooks, H. P. Davison, and Thomas Hitchcock Jr., will act as judges of the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB PILOTS TO COMPETE IN AIR RACES AT NEW YORK THIS JUNE | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

Cried M. le Colonel Prosper Josse: "Clemenceau was the only legislator I saw during the entire War who came within five metres of the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Political Week | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Colonel Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Ill. (papers in Illinois and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Periodicals | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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