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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...scene in time to serve such illustrious undergraduates as Milton Sills and Carl Van Vechten (class of 1903). But among the many now-famed names and faces which Barber Bratfish has known ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Memphis | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Confirmed the nomination of Clarence M. Young as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of Aeronautics to succeed William P. MacCracken, resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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