Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawk-nosed Lord Wellington used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that...
...deprecation of the title. "First man to fly" was Frenchman Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years later, rose 20 ft., went 720 ft. in 21 sec. His machine added nothing to plane construction but his cheerful survival of many a crash encouraged...
Looming Chamberlain. Londoners agreed that tall, hawk-nosed, black- haired Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loomed in the Empire's eye last week as a future Prime Minister because of his potent and dignified handling of the debt issue in the House of Commons where anger, much less hysteria, was never permitted to get the upper hand...
Sirs: Architects everywhere will appreciate TIME'S description of the monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, commemorating the first aeroplane flight; for TIME thoughtfully mentioned the architects-Rodgers and Poor (TIME, Nov. 28). Newspapers and magazines rarely give architects and sculptors credit for their creations, albeit painters invariably rate a good story with their names featured in every caption. Incidentally, gifted Architect Robert Perry Rodgers is brother of the late and famed Commander John Rodgers, U. S. N., D. S. M., pioneer in naval aeronautics, mine-removing hero of the North Sea Barrage, trans-pacific flyer...
Last week the international union acted by removing pudgy, hawk-nosed Sam Kaplan as boss of Local 306. The removal came while Kaplan was defending himself and his union rule in Manhattan Supreme Court on a receivership-and-damage suit filed by four members of Local 306. During the trial the judge discovered that Defendant Kaplan and two bodyguards were armed with pearl-handled revolvers, wrathfully ordered them to check their weapons with the court clerk. Witness after witness at the trial testified that Kaplan's men had "socked" them for speaking out at union meetings, had even threatened...