Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieut. John A. Macready, veteran U. S. Army flier, has added another achievement to his long record of wonderful flights and adventures. With...
...Coolidge, attended by Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, journeyed to Mercersburg, Pa., to see her elder son John, who will go to Amherst in the Fall, graduated from Mercersburg Academy. She attended the unveiling of a portrait of Lieut. Commander Joel T. Boone, a White House physician, as well as a graduate.of Mercersburg. She also laid the cornerstone of a new chapel; heard the class ode, the music of which was written by John; heard him receive the fourth prize in English theme writing; heard him give one of eight honorary orations on Perseverance; heard a concert by the Academy Mandolin...
Since then, however, official dispatches from Lieut. Col. E. F. Norton, the new leader, have been published by The London Times and The New York Times. Written from the base camp on Rongbuk Glacier, May 18, they gave no intimation that members of the party had any immediate likelihood of attaining the peak. Indeed, tentative starts by two parties which had established advance camps were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole...
...Laurent Eynac, whom Premier Poincaré has promoted from Under Secretary to High Commissioner of Aviation, has offered valuable prizes as his first official act: 200,000 francs for speed; 150,000 francs for seaplane speed; 100,000 francs for a distance flight. The French will not easily beat Lieut. "Al" Williams' 266.59 miles per hour, and Macready & Kelly's transcontinental flight of 2,600 miles...
...Reserve Lieut. John Harding...