Word: hughes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HUGH SPENCER...
...post cards, mailed simultaneously last October, reached the Collectors' Club, Manhattan, after a haste-post-haste trip in opposite directions around the world. My card, bearing a picture of Governor Smith, arrived first, after a westbound trip to San Francisco, Tokyo, London. The other card, mailed by Hugh Clark, stamp collector, bore a picture of President Coolidge, and arrived four hours later in Manhattan, after an eastbound trip to London, Tokyo, San Francisco...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, international aeronautical expert, maintains an opposite opinion to Sir Hugh Frenchard...
...evil wrought by flying will be incomparably greater than any benefit derived from it by mankind," declared Sir Hugh Frenchard, chief of the British Air staff recently. Professor Philip Baker of London University, a noted pacifist, used this statement as the basis for an address to a peace conference at York, England, several days ago. Professor Baker affirmed that Sir Hugh Frenchard had said to him that both military and civil aviation should be abandoned. This view of aerial development coming from a distinguished soldier and an experienced flyer has occasioned much comment...
General Umberto Nobile, designer and navigator of the first airship to reach the North Pole, said recently to a CRIMSON reporter, "I find it hard to believe that Sir Hugh Frenchard could have made such a statement about aviation. It is true that he may have meant that flying at present is evil because it increases the taxation of European peoples. Or he may have had in mind the destructive potentialities of airplanes in war. But aviation an evil in itself, no, I cannot think that he meant that. The statement refutes itself. No flyer would ever say such...