Word: graf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the committee was holding an executive session in another room, a female midget, Lya Graf of Ringling Bros. Circus, wriggled through the waiting crowd and headed straight for Banker Morgan. Leading the 21-in., 22-lb. creature in her gaudy blue satin dress was Charles Leef, assistant to famed Press-agent Dexter Fellows. "Gangway!" Leef cried. "The smallest lady in the world wants to meet the richest man in the world." Before Banker Morgan knew it, Leef had plunked Lya Graf down on his lap. Newscameras went into frantic action. The spectators roared with amazed amusement. Banker Morgan grinned...
...Graf slid off the banker's knee. Pressagent Leef plunked her back again as the photographers yammered for more. "Lya, take off your hat," he commanded. She did not want to. Mr. Morgan backed her up: "No, don't take it off. I think it's pretty...
...them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter-skelter procedure, had declared: "We're having a circus here and the only things lacking are peanuts and colored lemonade." When told of Lya Graf, the peppery little Virginian sniffed a contemptuous "I-told...
Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...
...fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats with the sailings of the Graf Zeppelin, making a weekly round-trip service...