Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motoring to Annapolis with Senator & Mrs. Hiram Johnson, Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore,'his personal Secretary, Marguerite Le Hand, and her two nieces Barbara and Marguerite Farwell, the President put out for a weekend fishing cruise on the Chesapeake Bay, put back again on schedule...
...Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing Philip Le Boutilliers new boat, Stormy Weather, designed on the same speedy lines as Dorade. Oldest boat in the race, Vagabond, was manned by Yale undergraduates. In Hamrah, Robert Ames, Boston socialite, was taking his two sons Harry and Richard and a crew of their Harvard classmates...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy, 72, Wartime hero of Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, onetime (1921-26) Governor General of Canada; of heart failure following an emergency abdominal operation; at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England...
...writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer), Robert Graves (Goodbye to All That), Germany's Fritz von Unruh (Way of Sacrifice), Erich Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), Arnold Zweig (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), Franz Werfel (The Forty Days...
...monoplane at 7:52 a. m., May 20, 1927 to fly nonstop to Paris. He carried 425 gal. of fuel, four sandwiches, two canteens of water, army emergency rations. Sitting on a gasoline tank, seeing through a periscope, Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis to Le Bourget Field in 33½ hr., landed to receive such acclaim as had been given no private citizen before or since...