Word: harmonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wine list about this long-the contrast left me speechless!" To the "Early Birds," as the pre-War airmen formally call themselves, Lieut. Settle brought news of one of their own. Just before his steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon had offered to renew the Bennett Trophy for international ballooning which the U. S. had just won permanently. The original endowment by the late Publisher fames Gordon Bennett provided only the first cup in 1906. Not for 18 years did any nation score the three consecutive victories necessary for permanent...
Since the War (he was a major in the air service) Col. Harmon has spent considerable time and money in the interests of world peace, particularly among flyers of all nations. He established the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs which awards a Harmon Trophy for each year's top air feat among the nations. He has long tried to interest the League of Nations in establishing an international air force to be called "Silver Wings of Peace." One of its functions would be to fly over troubled countries and drop tracts begging them to forgive their enemies. Col. Harmon (variously...
...seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India while his sponsor, a retired bookseller named Malcolm Schloss, began making plans for a triumphal reentry. Meher Baba, said Sponsor Schloss, would bring to the U. S. an "infinite state." In July he would break his silence with an internationally broadcast talk. What Meher...
...nine years it has promoted Race Relations Sunday (Feb. 14 this year) in the churches. This year it completed a five-year trial period in administering the Harmon Awards for Distinguished Achievement among Negroes. Working with a small budget ($20,000 this year) it is in contact with some 80 Race Relations groups throughout the land, hopes to see one in every community where race problems exist.* During the past year the Commission has found, to its vexation, much discrimination in unemployment relief. Says the report: "The crucial situation between whites and Negroes was dramatically impressed upon America last year...
...Harmon, N. Y. where New York Central trains change from electric to steam engines, not far from Briarcliff, stands ready a retreat called Meherashram (Home of Compassion) where the pious of any & all sects may soon meet with a long-haired, silky-mustached seer who calls himself Shri (Mr.) Sadguru (Perfect Master) Meher (Compassion) Baba (Father). To his Indian co-religionists the Parsees, Meher Baba, 38, is the "God Man" or the "Messiah." To many another follower he is simply the "Perfect Master." His U. S. sponsors, Malcolm and Jean Schloss who await him at Harmon, think and write...