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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleveland Races & Show | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...House Committee on the District of Columbia last week held hearings on the Lankford bill, which is proposed by the Lord's Day Alliance to make Washington the model city of the country. The bill would close all stores, theatres, cinemas and baseball parks on Sundays, preventing all work not absolutely necessary, and anyone who infringed its provisions would be subject to a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sunday and Sabbath | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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