Word: harmonizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week the International League of Aviators pronounced Dieudonne Coste the world's outstanding airman of 1930. To him for the second year went the Harmon award of 50.000 francs. The awards committee had deliberated long over the name of Coste and Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, both transatlantic flyers. They chose Coste, they said, because he already held five world records. Other kudos: Frank Monroe Hawks, best U. S. flyer, for his transcontinental speed flights; Amy ("Johnnie") Johnson, best woman flyer, for her London-Australia solo flight; Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's best dirigible pilot...
...family, has been successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed in a motor accident last July. For years...
...Paddy Harmon nursed the idea of an athletic emporium in Chicago comparable to Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was young Strotz who finally showed him how to finance it. He got several sport-loving businessmen of his own kind -Vincent Bendix, John F. Jelke, Jr., Vice President B. A. Massee of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Grain Trader James Norris- to go on the board. People like Jack Mitchell (Lolita Armour's husband) and Clement Studebaker, as well as most directors, bought stock...
...Paddy Harmon soon proved himself no showman. In autumn, 1929, after a half-year's operation, the stadium was $300,000 in the red. The directors got Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Refining Co., to come in as president. Business got no better. Bond interest had to be defaulted. In June 1930, Sidney Strotz asked to be given a crack at the presidency...
They rode as far as Harmon where rail road police took up the vigil. At Hudson, N. Y., Diamond and the Golden Wedding rye were carefully transferred to a Cadillac limousine, ferried across the river, driven to Acra...