Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England.
Some thought it was engine failure. Others blamed it on lightning. The company said the pilot, trapped in a storm-swept Swiss valley, had flown through a cloud, crashed blindly into a mountainside. Whatever caused it, the Douglas airliner lay wrecked among the pine trees, its nine passengers and crew...
ALL ABOARD, Rock Island Golden State Limited, eight forty-five, for Excelsior Springs, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, Dalhart, Santa Rosa, Carrizozo, Alamogordo, El Paso, Douglas, Chandler, Phoenix, Palm Springs, Mexicali, Calexico, Agua Caliente, San Diego, Los Angeles and all points in California. . . . The train is now ready on...
Prime basis for the demand was that he had procured Army aircraft through negotiated contract instead of competitive bids. Among other things, he was charged with "dishonesty, gross misconduct, inefficiency, inaccuracy, unreliability, incompetency, mismanagement." Major General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, promptly stripped General Foulois of most of his powers...
MAY 6 Douglas, as Godkin lecturer, flays New Deal; Whitney resigns from position as Kirkland House Master.