Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor William H. Gillespie of Pittston telegraphed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America please to come and extinguish the feuds current between mine operators, contractors and two factions of the local mine union. Two other feudists had been slaughtered, a third wounded, in the past two months...
...Jeanne Durand wanted to set a new world's record for a parachute jump. Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
...airplane. A race will be held at Mitchell Field on June 23 when college men, in their own or borrowed planes, will race for money. The race will be conducted under the auspices of the National Aeronautic Association with these judges: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Reginald L. Brooks, Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison, Thomas Hitchcock...
...L. Daniels, it became known last week, uses a white-painted plane to visit his parishioners in Welcannia, New South Wales. His plane is labelled "CHURCH OF ENGLAND...
...Storrs Adair of Richmond, Va., first classroom teacher ever to be elected president of N. E. A., made backward delegates feel at home, bustled up to greet Harvard's Lowell, attended teas, smiled maternally for petulant photographers, said little for publication, was awarded an especially created degree, G. L. (Gracious Lady), by the Massachusetts Teachers' Federation. A mathematics master, Harry C. Barber of Philips-Exeter Academy, was elected to succeed Miss Adair as president at the next convention...