Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cummings '30, running for the B. A. A. came in third in the 400-metre run, while MacAuley Smith, the old Yale Intercollegiate cross country champion, now a student in the Law School, representing the B. A. A. had little opposition in taking the 500-metre, run in 15 minutes 29 4-5 seconds...
...Class of 1928 at Amherst elected President Coolidge its honorary president. . . . President Coolidge laid a cornerstone in Washington, for the new American Red Cross Building, dedicated to U. S. women in the War. Chief Justice Taft presided. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended. . . . President Coolidge journeyed to Gettysburg, Pa., to deliver a Memorial Day speech. In charge of the train was one Grant Eckert, son of the later Conductor John Eckert who had charge of the train which took President Lincoln to Gettysburg in 1863. In his speech, President Coolidge called Abraham Lincoln "one of the greatest men ever in the world...
...Chicago Tribune published a suggestion that C. C. Pyle, who promoted the cross-continent "bunion derby," should be engaged to manage the "crusade" and make it a "high class and well organized parade...
...Capt. Harry W. Lyon, navigator ; James Warner, radio operator. They made the 2,400-mile hop from Oakland Airport, Calif., to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, in 27 hrs., 28 min.-having no trouble except that they thought they were going to run out of gasoline. Their plane, called the Southern Cross, is a Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors...
...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...