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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lieut. Col. Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne, 48, of Buckinghamshire, England, Conservative member of Parliament, military author, board chairman of 30 companies (phonographs, rubber, books, oil, wine, mines, banks); in Buckinghamshire...
...believe the newspapers of the country, chained or unchained, ever had better editors than today, were ever edited more intelligently, conscientiously than now." ¶ Executive Editor Ik Shuman of the Brooklyn Standard-Union told how he was one of seven "ghosts" who wrote articles signed by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Said President Walter M. Harrison of the Society: "After this ... I would be ready to believe that former President Coolidge isn't writing his own magazine articles except that I know so capable an editor as Ray Long wouldn't hire a ghost who writes as badly...
Shirley Short, U. S. Air Mail pilot; Pelletier ("Paris to Peking") D'Oisy; Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Lady Mary ("London to Capetown") Bailey...
...Flying from Mexico City to New York in three days for the Herrick funeral, Col. Lindbergh, No. i TJ. S. Hero, landed at Boiling Field, Washington, tarried 15 minutes. Across the watery field rushed worshipful crowds to greet him. Impatient, he taxied away, halting near a great mudpuddle. When the crowd approached again, he raced his motor sharply. In doing so he splashed dirty water over newsgatherers, photographers, admiring women. Said the Washington Daily News, in an editorial captioned "Lindbergh Splashes Mud on Himself": 'We'd like to tell the boy where he gets off but we doubt...
...Died. Col. Ernest Lester Jones, 52, of Washington, D. C., since 1915 Director of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; in Washington...