Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEOGRAPHICAL: Your story leaves the impression there were only Hill Billies there, from the Smoky Mountains. That's like saying all aviators are from Kitty Hawk, N. C., for that same year the Church of God did inaugurate its return at Camp Creek, N. C., same year the Wrights first flew at the other end of the State. The Church of God is now firmly established with some 4,000 congregations in 44 States-22 foreign countries...
Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
...year was selected to limit membership to Wartime aviators, the day to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk...
Frosty Mr. Neville Chamberlain, hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer, arrived at the Treasury one morning last week with his striped trousers soaked to the hips, the tail of his morning coat dripping, water squelching from his shoes. Nobody asked any questions, discretion being a hallmark of British civil servants, and Chancellor Chamberlain volunteered no explanation, sat down wet, merely telling his secretary to have his chauffeur bring a change of clothes...
...Wild, veteran Chicago news hawk and Harvard publicity director, genial panhandler of College news, liaison officer between official Harvard and the world, chief shock-troop denyer of all University rumors, was tendered a reception yesterday in honor of the anniversary of the appointment to his post here. Gifts were tendered by appreciative Boston reporters, including a rubber stamp worded, "The University has no statement to make regarding Mr. Hanfstaengl's offer...