Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson married and started in at the bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland, since then has maintained a perfect attendance record at European conferences to which the U. S. sent delegations until the Nine-Power Conference at Brussels last month...
...recent interview at the Institute of Geographic Exploration, Major Albert W. Stevens, famous stratosphere flyer and explorer, U. S. Army Air Corps, announced that he cannot possibly undertake another stratosphere flight before...
Although Major Stevens went up 13 miles in his last stratosphere flight, he says that he can only go two miles higher. "Theoretically," he remarked, "it is possible to go 18 miles, but we can not promise more than...
...anyone with a sincere desire to keep out of the limelight, the advisability of making a solo flight from the U. S. to Europe is open to question. Whether, having made the first non-stop solo flight from the U. S. to Europe in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh thereby justified the U. S. press in considering that his private life was public property is open to question also. Last week, the sad and puzzling problem of the No. 1 U. S. hero's relation to the No. 1 U. S. institution of hero-worship was raised once more when...
...rumor that Col. Lindbergh intended to come home started a few weeks ago in St. Louis. Major Albert Bond Lambert, one of the backers of the 1927 flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred...