Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patriotic welcomes they knew. Mexico's burly little President Emilio Fortes Gil beamed on his grandstand in Valbuena Field. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, at his left, smiled gravely. The populace screamed: "Viva . . . viva Sidar . . . viva Sidar el loco" [The crazy, reckless]. All this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit, ist Class" on him. El Loco picked up his President...
Goebel Battered. Col. Arthur C. Goebel, who with Lieut. William Davis Jr. won the Dole Flight to Hawaii in 1927, was barrel-rolling over Los Angeles municipal airport last week to celebrate the return of 43 Los Angeles planes from a California tour. While he was upside down a dry cell from his battery broke loose and bashed him on the forehead. Dazed, he continued his inverted flight. When he righted himself and blood slopped into his eyes he landed quickly, was bandaged, then went up again...
Speaking of Col. Robert T. Oliver so disparagingly is also unkind. He it was that organized the Dental Corps and ranks today as its senior officer, has had years of service and during the World War functioned as Chief Dental Surgeon A.E.F., was awarded the D.S.M. from his country and we of the service both active and reserve, love and respect...
...President appointed Gustav Aaron Youngquist of Minnesota to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's old post in the Department of Justice (see col...
...usual formality of a Speech from the Throne because: 1) The King, who reads the Speech, was still convalescent at Sandringham, though well enough to shoot pheasants, eat pheasant morsels. 2) The Prime Minister, who writes the Speech from the Throne, was on high and rough seas (see col...