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Retirement. Lieut. Lester J. Maitland in the Herald-Tribune said that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh "is through

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Lindbergh Saga | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Because aeronautical engineers are at the very front of motor development, Lester J. Hendershot, young Pittsburgh civil engineer working for the U. S. Topographical Survey, secretly presented his new type electric motor to such men at Pittsburgh, Detroit and Manhattan last week. Without any connection to any apparent power store, the machine ran for hours. The energy came, said the inventor, from the electricity accumulated by the earth in its daily and yearly rotations. Quite probable, acknowledged physicists, but not more of that planetary charge can be continuously tapped to operate more than a toy motor. Frankly skeptical, they awaited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fuelless Motor | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House and given Distinguished Flying Crosses for the flight to Hawaii; Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court (again), with the eight associate justices, to pay respects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...public high and Latin schools, including Roxbury Latin, within a radius of 20 miles of the State House. The winners of these prizes are Edward Francis Goggin of Dorchester, Boston Latin; John Wilson Anderson Jr. of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; Harrison Graham Pope of West Roxbury, Roxbury Latin; and Lester Nelson Stanley of Somerville, Somerville High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN FRESHMEN WIN SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

...LESTER LIBBEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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