Word: crockers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flying Club will enter air meets at Worcester on Saturday and at Providence later in the season, it was announced yesterday at, the first meeting of the club. The new Curtis Travelair plane, entered in the air meets, will be piloted by A. V. Pabst 21., of Milwaukee, and Crocker Snow '28, of Boston...
...present time the organization has five qualified pilots. F. L. Ames '28 heads the list with 240 hours of solo-flying. In the order of their experience follow: A. U. Pabst 2L., a naval reservist, 150 hours; O. A. Spalding '27, 60 hours; Crocker Snow 1L., ex-member of the 101st Pursuit Group, 55-hours; and F. J. Otis '27, of the JN4D squad, 50 hours. Ames and Otis own their own planes in addition. All these men are licensed in the State of Massachusetts and Ames, Pabst and Spalding have applied for certificates from the Department of Commerce...
Besides affidavits, the petition contained a statement from George U. Crocker, onetime Boston Treasurer. Mr. Crocker is a member of the University Club where Judge Thayer stayed during the trial. His statement said: "At this time I did not know that I had ever met Judge Thayer. He approached me one evening, however, called me by name and began to talk to me about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I soon was able to gather that he was the Presiding Judge, but even then I did not know his name. . . . One morning at breakfast I particularly remember because it seemed...
...country to purchase and operate its own plane. For the past month the club ship has been in the air almost every day, piloted by one of the four students who have qualified as pliots: F. L. Ames '29, O. A. Spalding '27, A. U. Pabst 2L, and Crocker Snow 1L. Over 75 passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap of any sort...
...with which to buy the plane. Since last fall it has been completely overhauled and refinished and last week it was towed to the airport. It was first taken on a trial trip by one of the experienced aviators and when it was declared to be in perect condition Crocker Snow 1L., without a parachute, took her up for a twenty minute solo...