Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, lean, pale U. S. citizen of 38, showed his discharge papers from the Leftist Spanish Air Force. He claimed that last fall he went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built copy of the U. S. Boeing...
...sold most of it to General Motors Corp. ten years later for $43,000,000. Currently he is a partner of Lehman Bros., potent Wall Street investment house which controls Transcontinental & Western Air. For several months Aces Hertz and Rickenbacker have been engaged in an air duel which was small stuff for Ace Hertz but big for Ace Rickenbacker. Last week it became apparent that "Eddie" Rickenbacker had won, as North American Aviation, Inc., which owns Eastern Air Lines, filed notice with the New York Stock Exchange of intent to sell Eastern to Eddie Rickenbacker rather than to John Hertz...
...mile classic tonight. Glen Cunningham is generally conceded the mile in the light of his easy recent victories and the fact that San Romani was badly spiked last week in the Millrose Games. So tonight the fans will be hanging over the balconies for a McClusky-Don Lash duel...
OPPOSITION O'MALLEY'S RESOLUTION RANK BETRAYAL IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENCE. IF YOU INSIST WILL CHALLENGE YOU DUEL WHERE PERMITTED...
...consistent and hot-headed an advocate of Philippine independence as a minor Filipino politician named Narciso Lapus. Because he disapproved of the appointment of Nicholas Roosevelt as vice-Governor of the Philippines in 1930, he challenged him to a duel, whereupon startled Herbert Hoover changed signals, appointed Mr. Roosevelt Minister to Hungary. Lately Narciso Lapus has been disturbed by the coolness which Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington, have displayed toward a House resolution-introduced by Representative Thomas O'Malley of Milwaukee-"to provide for the immediate and complete independence of the Philippine...