Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent your statement ". . . his [Lindbergh's] father, who died in 1933" [TIME, Sept. 25], I well remember that Charles Jr., an up-and-coming aviator, flew over the Lindbergh homestead and dropped his father's ashes several years before he made his well known solo flight to Paris...
Like German, Irish, English immigrants, freedom-hungry Poles came to the U. S. in flight from oppression-after their army's ill-starred revolt against Russian domination; to escape the knout of Tsar Alexander II; in a tide in the '80s; in a tidal wave in the 15 years preceding World War I. Greatest concentration of Poles in the world today is Chicago's 500,000. Other great centres: Detroit, Buffalo, New York...
...Because the turtle is slow but sure," top-flight rodeo performers dubbed themselves Turtles when in 1936 they formed a union for collective bargaining with promoters...
Practically, also, a change of Polish leadership was due, with even British Elder Statesman David Lloyd George fuming at the former Government's flight and previous oppressions. Ignace Paderewski was offered the job of President, but the old pianist, in exile since 1920 from the State he helped found, turned the job down...
...Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed. The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Turkey and Estonia all trotted to the Kremlin. Great Britain discussed whether she ought to send David Lloyd George there, and Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria were all on the point of dispatching top flight statesmen eastward. In Sofia, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, than whom no crowned head is more anti-Bolshevik, wrapped up three large packages of his gold-crested cigarets with his own hands and addressed them as gifts respectively to Communist Party Secretary General Joseph Stalin, Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov and Defense Commissar Kliment...