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...White House War. Among those thus called to League headquarters were Henry Breckinridge, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War; James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime Senator from New York; Theodore Douglas Robinson, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Curtiss James, rail tycoon; Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts. Strife with a Republican President would come hard for this predominantly Republican Navy League Committee. Mr. Breckinridge, outstanding Democrat of the lot, was first to dissociate himself from that part of "Admiral" Gardiner's outburst which...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc. for 13 attack planes...
...newsmen and other guests in a Curtiss Condor which flew over Newark Airport one afternoon last week, walked forward to the control compartment to see what was going on. Ordinarily they would have seen a somewhat annoyed pilot working the controls to compensate for the shift of weight caused by their movements. Instead they saw Pilot Ralph G. Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined...
...head the Pioneers, Harry Ellis Collins resigned his position as executive representative of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the Pacific Coast and flew last week to Manhattan. Mr. Collins' appointment, sponsored by Curtiss-Wright's potent Chairman of the Executive Committee Clement Melville Keys, was somewhat puzzling to many observers because he is not widely known in the industry, and his experience has not been specially concerned with airmail. He served in the Navy from 1905 to 1929 (chiefly with the bureau of supply & contracts), resigned to go to California for Curtiss-Wright. There he was in charge...
...little later came Glenn Curtiss with his method of pushing the aileran controls from side to side with the shoulders as an "instinctive" means of banking, and his wheel for steering. Bleriot used the Deperdussin method of operating the ailerons with a wheel mounted atop the elevator stick. Out of these and many more experiments came the singlestick control as it is almost universally used today...