Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely you know that Lindbergh never flew from New York to Paris? He hired a double who took off from New York and has been hiding in Jersey City ever since. When the right number of hours had elapsed Lindbergh, who had been lying low in Ireland, flew across the Channel and the people of Paris who had never seen him before were completely taken...
That same afternoon General Johnson flew up to Manhattan, dined with National Retail Dry Goods Association, and gave them a Johnsonian earful by way of reply: "Generally speaking the dead cats are fewer in number and have lost some of their ripeness and velocity. . . . But a storm is brewing. . . . There will be a distinct movement to repeal this act under this slogan of 'oppression of small enterprise.' It won't be a forthright open movement for repeal. These gentlemen do not dare do that. Some of this will be done by a Senator whom I love...
...star under which Robert Hayes Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks to the ousted regime of Tyrant Gerardo Machado. Last month President Grau signed a decree ordering the Cuban Electric...
...Louis Behncke. He was born on a Wisconsin farm. During the War he was a crack bomber and machine gunner. Today he holds every possible military and civilian pilot's license, has some 8,324 hr. on his log with never a serious crackup. For five years he flew the mail west out of Chicago for United Air Lines. Two years ago Pilot Behncke whipped the pilots' union together from the ranks of the ineffectual National...