Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back up the sweeping statements for which Colonel Mitchell is being tried. He said he would prove that the lost Shenandoah was not a first rate dirigible and not in the best of condition, that a Navy officer had tried to persuade Mrs. Lansdowne not to testify that her husband had protested against the Shenandoah's fatal trip, that several high officers of the Army and Navy had made false and misleading statements to investigating committees to the prejudice of aviation, that the Air Service is controlled by non-flying officers, that many flyers have been killed because they...
...reluctantly identified as Mrs. George W. Steele, wife of the Commandant of the Air Station at Lakehurst, called on her and gave her a typewritten statement. "The first paragraph had me saying that when I accepted the invitation of the Board to appear as a witness I felt my husband needed defense, but that since that time I had changed my mind. In the second paragraph I was to say that my husband always regarded the Shenandoah, like a manofwar, was not to be used for exhibition purposes, but that he was ready at any time...
...Lansdowne: "In the second paragraph, where it states that my husband would take the Shenandoah anywhere, at any time for a military purpose. It is an insult to his memory to insinuate that he would do such a thing...
...officers and men who went down with the M1. It was recalled that her Commander, Lieutenant Alec M. Carrie, had been married only eleven months. A Mrs. Bertie Jones, wife of one of the submarine's petty officers, was harkened to with indignation when she asserted that her husband had often told her that "the M1's machinery frequently went wrong...
...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...