Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just whose baby the San Francisco strike was now, nobody could say. New York's Senator Wagner flew out to Portland as a "special adviser." Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the new National Labor Relations Board, sent the Board's chief examiner, P. A. Donoghue, to San Francisco. The Labor Department ordered a conciliator up from Dallas. But the Federal Government showed reluctance to embroil itself further. At her Washington desk sat Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...hard-talking NRAdministrator would not go vacationing with his job left in that unsettled state. He delivered an edict: All code-making must be wound up before he gets back to his desk. Then, his conscience content, he hopped an Army airplane with Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson and flew west...
...insulator a half-inch thick flew into pieces...
...Pulitzers sold the New York World, Post and Gatty flew around the world, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have...
Optimist. From Toronto, where he had attended the Optimists Clubs convention, flew Alex Mokher last week, bound for Florida and home. With him in the family cabin plane were his wife, his daughters Marjorie, 16. Dorothy, 9. Over Lexington, Ky., Father Mokher lost his bearings, decided to ask directions. Circling low over a country store, he slowed his motor, shouted to the proprietor. To hear better he circled lower, grazed a tree, struck some telephone wires, crashed. Of the Mokhers only Dorothy survived...