Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles Country Club last week, Harry Cooper, new 21-year-old English professional of the Tenison Park Club (Dallas, Tex.), scored 279 (nine under par), led a field including Joe ("Trick Shot") Kirkwood, Al Espinosa, "Auld" John Black, and Amateurs George von Elm and Charles Chung (Hawaiian champion). Cooper collected the juiciest of typically Los Angelic prize-money...
...Some of its more potent members: Thomas E. Donnelley, Chicago printer; George P. Douglas, Minneapolis lawyer; Joseph R. Ensign, Simsbury, Conn., manufacturer; Samuel H. Fisher, Manhattan lawyer; John R. Galt, Hawaiian banker; Edward J. Gavegan, New York Supreme Court Judge; Robert L. Luce, Manhattan lawyer; Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco bishop; Charles C. Paulding, Manhattan railroad lawyer and nephew of Mr. Depew; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Governor; Robert Treat Platt, Portland (Ore.) lawyer; James Gamble Rogers, Manhattan architect; Charles H. Sherrill, Manhattan lawyer; George W. Woodruff, Pennsylvania Attorney General...
Colonel William Mitchell was found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline" for his statements criticizing the War and Navy Departments made in September after the Shenandoah disaster and the failure of the Hawaiian flight...
Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
After Mrs. Lansdowne, the defense called other witnesses: Major Ray Walsh to testify as to the part of airplanes in last summer's Hawaiian maneuvers; Major Carl E. George to testify to the efficiency of airplane bombing; Major H. A. D argue to testify to attempts to muzzle officers of the Air Service...