Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn comes to Copernicus, one of the moon's biggest pits. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor John Stewart, the silver edge of a lunar morning creeps up the steep walls of the volcano, two miles high. Long shadows of the craggy rim are cast across the crater floor within, slowly shortening until...
Reelected. John R. Yoorhis, 99, New York City Board of Elections president; to be Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, New York City...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...
...Famed as flying governors are John H. Trumbull (Conn.), Walter J. Kohler (Wisconsin), John Hammill (Iowa), Harry S. Leslie (Indiana), Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia). Governor Fred Warren Green (Michigan) also flies frequently. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut) is the only Senator who flies frequently. None of President Hoover's Cabinet flies often. Recently Secretaries Adams (Navy), Lament (Commerce) and Davis (Labor) have gone up. Secretary Davis said that he would buy a plane, could he afford...
...West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...