Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of Finance-Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, Jewish banker, long time friend of Nominee Smith. This appointment was an outcropping' of one of the richest veins in the Brown Derby's field of political resources. Potent Jews seem to be preponderantly Democratic this year. Many of them were Woodrow Wilson's friends. They include Bernard Mannes Baruch, Jesse Isidore Straus,* Louis Marshal, Julius Rosenwald, Otto Hermann Kahn, Philadelphia's Gimbels...
Ambassador (Col.) Noble Brandon Judah, home from Cuba's heat, called last fortnight on Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall, Chief of Staff, and arranged to join his old regiment, the 332nd Field Artillery,* in camp at Sparta...
...Turkish super-submarines, recently completed by a Dutch shipyard, were welcomed into Turkish waters amid pomp. The Ghazi, the Victorious One, stood at a window of the Dolma-Baghtche Palace on the Bosphorus, and watched through field glasses while the Turkish flag was hoisted aboard the submarines...
...weather prophets advised against the start. Lieut. Henry B. Clark, in charge of Roosevelt Field (L. I.) declared it would be a miracle if the plane succeeded in leaving the ground. But the young ace thought of his Mexican bride, climbed into the cockpit of his Ryan monoplane, set out on the return flight to Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military...
...Press which proudly hailed Detroit as THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. But last week the Detroit News broke with its contemporary, conquered local pride, generously yielded the palm to Cleveland. Said the News, editorially: "Cleveland's foresight has brought its own reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin, and Croydon, near London, long holders of first and second...