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...Cross flew across 7,300 miles of water, 500 miles of land in ten days, in 89 flying hours. Modest Kingsford-Smith landing at Sydney behind schedule (one day), apologized. Rewards came quickly: $25,000 from proud grateful "Aussie"; the Southern Cross, the gift of its owner G. Allen Hancock, Los Angeles financier...
...Knapp had been considered a gentlewoman. She was descended from Ebenezer Hancock, brother of famed John Hancock. She had held positions of high responsibility, including superintendence of public schools and the deanship of the Home Economics College at Syracuse University. Now, grey-haired, handsomely dressed, she must go to jail...
...spring of 1778, after George Washington had moved his troops out of Valley Forge, that noble eccentrician, Governor John Hancock, put his bold signature on the last bill passed by the Provincial Court of Massachusetts. The bill gave young Samuel Phillips Jr. the right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went...
What a good thing it would be for this bumptious writer of cheap stuff in TIME to attend the Willis-for-President rally on the evening of March 7, where Hardin, Allen, Hancock, Logan, Putnam, Anglaize and many other fine counties in the state will be represented and do some "booming" for Willis, something which seems to hurt TIME terribly. There is not a thug, saloon parasite, grafter, bootlegger, and not a "big wet" in the state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken...
...united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe...