Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover Administration is not yielding or backtracking on the cardinal ideal, but simply feels that a primarily naval power such as the U. S. should keep hands off the problem of land disarmament, leaving it to be thrashed out among France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the other land Powers...
...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst, as everyone knows, possesses 28 U. S. newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people?"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature...
...have no lobbyist. . . . Nevertheless we have the right of free speech, free press. . . ." Then concerning Catholics, Dr. Wilson added: "The Catholic Church has long had a headquarters here from which they have no hesitancy in conferring with Senators and other government officials, and not a Methodist pulpit in the land has made any special protest against that right." Alert Washingtonians thereupon expected that yet another open letter would appear in print, this time from Catholics to Methodists. Next day such a letter did appear, by Patrick J. Ward, director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference at Washington. He, like...
...dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then the Zeppelin flew to Graz and returned home via Vienna and Salzburg, completing the trip in 13½-hrs. For the Graf Zeppelin's next trip, May 15, to New York, passenger fare was fixed...