Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following dav, having remained in the air 20 hours and 12 minutes, establishing a world's record for seaplanes which I believe has not since been exceeded. I was accompanied on this flight by three other pilots and we took turns during, the flight One of these officers, Lieut. Irvine, is still in the service; another, Ensign Thomas, is dead, and the third, Ensign Souther is in civil life. This flight is on record in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department...
Last week, MacMillan's planes, under Lieut. Commander Richard E. Byrd, flew from Philadelphia via the Delaware River, foggy Montauk Point, L. I., and the Cape Cod Canal, to Boston, where Mayor Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event...
...lorry arrived. Out of it got three prisoners : Lieut. Colonel Georgi Koeff, Lawyer Marco Friedmann, Sacristan Zadgorsky (TIME, May 11, 25). Under heavy guard, they were marched to the gibbets, where the acts of accusation were read to them. This took about 40 minutes. It was then the turn of three gypsy executioners...
...face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without his permission, advertised the ''March King" cigar. He asserted that, beyond the mere trespass upon his name or af front to his taste which the advertisement...
That was the idea of Captain A. W. Stevens, official photographer of Dr. A. Hamilton Rice's expedition, and his pilot, Lieut. Walter Hinton, famed flier of the Atlantic-crossing NC-4. Back in Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning...