Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diver Alberto: "Three. It's a big ship. I can't see the deck. . . . Now I can see something. It looks like a crane...
...They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss Crane; his desire to be the "dare-devil aviator of Congress" and his purchase of many an old Army plane that would...
Birthday. Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn, who at 10 gained fame with her book of poems The Janitor's Boy. Age: 17. Date: Aug. 11. Celebration: Telling about her new poem Pocahontas, in which eight modern poets chase the Communists from the U. S., make Pocahontas queen...
...oldest and most famed founder's son is Charles Richard Crane, onetime president of the company (he resigned in 1914) and onetime Minister to China.† He more than any other Crane is peregrinatory. Principally his travels have taken him to the Near and Far East. Probably no man in the U. S. is as familiar as he with events in the Hedjaz or in Iraq, with the doings of Afghans or Parsees or the Annamese...
Sons of Charles Richard Crane are Richard Teller 2nd and John Oliver. Richard Teller 2nd was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, serving as such at the same time that his father was Minister to China. John Oliver is a former secretary to President Thomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, last year married in Rome the beautiful Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti. A sister of John Oliver, Frances, is married to Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain...