Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just a word as to what I think of TIME. . . . For one thing, it's brief but complete; it covers the field adequately without the verbosity of a reporter who is being paid by the column. Again, it is surprising: the first week it came on Saturday, the next week on Sunday, this week on Monday and thus it leaves me wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price...
...last week by a tall, unique young man famed for his blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist...
...among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...
Though Lobbyist Lindbergh had invited all of Congress, only two Senators presented themselves at the field the first day ?Maine's engaging Hale and Connecticut's meticulous Bingham, who, like Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, is himself a flier...
...establishment of a central supply room furnishing equipment for all sports, and of a laundry room adequate to care of the cleaning of the outfits of the University athletes, has just been completed at Soldiers Field...