Word: horgan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Edwina Haskell Morrow, daughter of onetime (1919-23) Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; to Dr. Charles Joseph Horgan of Washington, D. C.; in Washington...
...General Nobile . . . was retained at a salary to act as her [the Norge's] captain, in exactly the same capacity as the captain of any other ship. ... It would be extremely unfair to [Lieut.] Riiser-Larsen, who navigated the entire flight across the Polar Sea, and to [Lieuts.] Horgan and Wisting who operated the lateral and vertical controls, not to give credit for both the navigating and the steering where...
...bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current...
Charles A. McLain left Butte, Mont., several weeks ago. He left after dinner with Mayor William H. Horgan and Judge Joseph R. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the state of Montana, many city officials and other prominent citizens. For many months, perhaps for years, he will not see the tin sardine and preserved fruit cans collecting their films of copper in the gullies around his home town. He will be in Manhattan studying "for a début in the New York music world...
...Flight. Thus flew Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the U. S., Umberto Nobile of Italy, Lieutenants Hjalmar Rüser-Larsen, Emil Horgan, Oscal Omdal and Gustav Amundsen (nephew) of the Norwegian navy, Mechanician Natale Cecioni of Italy, Meteorologist Fenn Malmgren of Sweden, their eight aides and dog Titina, in the semirigid dirigible Norge...