Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a man, "any office, even as exalted as that of U. S. Senator," now seems to possess less opportunity for public service than his own private activities. Or so he told Governor Henry Hollis Horton of Tennessee last week when the Governor asked him to fill the seat of Senator Lawrence Davis Tyson, deceased (TIME, Sept. 2). Governor Horton, not greatly surprised, next offered the exalted office to William E. Brock, Chattanooga candy...
Commissioner Whalen, no less tall, handsome or fastidious than Administrator Campbell, exclaimed: "Buck-passer!" For courtesy's sake he held a conference with the city's five district attorneys and emerged to exclaim again, this time officially: "Buck-passer...
Tycoons Rush Help. Moslems outnumber Jews 13 to 1. That is, there are more than 209 million Mohammedans on earth and slightly less than 16 million Children of Israel. In Palestine there are 591,000 Moslems and only 150,000 Jews, of whom some 2,000 are from the U. S. Last week Jews all over the world rallied to aid their outnumbered brethren in the Holy Land...
Next day he flew back to Lakehurst, the sacks under his eyes less baggy. Train took him to New York where the city gave him a hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...
Toronto & Syracuse Shows. Overshadowed by the Cleveland Air Races & Show but important in their own compass were shows last week at Syracuse, N. Y. and Toronto. At Syracuse, Aaron Kranz performed a feat which with less other air news would have brought great newspaper headlines. When an exhaust pipe of an endurance plane cracked, he went up in another plane, climbed down a rope ladder to the first, made repairs, then dropped to earth by parachute...