Word: graysons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weather persistently spat drizzle and squall in the face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off?weather or no weather...
Elections, Resolutions. To be commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, succeeding U. S. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, was elected John J. Garrity of Chicago. Other officers elected: W. L. Grayson, vice com-mander-in-chief; Peter O'Shea, surgeon general; Allen P. Wilson, chaplain in chief...
Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
...Hewitt, Miss Gertrude Spelman; S. N. Churtleff, Miss Anne Williams; G. R. Russell, Miss Katharine Hepburn; R. W. Hurry, Miss Emily Hurry; C. S. M. Grayson, Miss Helen Boyden...
...golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators will be arrested. Derby Day parties must...