Word: lanier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the City of New York, left Manhattan on August 26, it looked as if this would be one trip on which there would be no Negro. But Robert White Lanier, a 20-year-old Negro youth from Brunswick, Ga., via Jersey City, thought differently. He is evidently one of those youths filled with the spirit of adventure, since he had hiked across the continent some time before. At any rate, he concealed himself aboard the City of New York, and was not discovered until the bark was well...
...spring, the T. A. T. will put into operation a daily air-rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...
...Charles Lanier Lawrance, famed designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor (TIME, Feb. 13) was piloting an Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...
Married. Mrs. Josephine Lanier Jones, great-great-granddaughter of Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, granddaughter of Poet Sidney Lanier; and Russell Blake Livermore, lawyer (Livermore & Livermore); in Manhattan...
...Charles Lanier Lawrance,, inventor of the Wright Whirlwind motor, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp...