Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of its investigations, a committee headed by Dwight W. Morrow made recommendations last December for more and better aviation-principally: 1) That peacetime activities be put under a Bureau of Air Navigation headed by an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce; that the U. S. Air Mail Service be extended, preferably by contract. 2) That an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation be created; that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken...
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...former Alicia du Pont, daughter of Alfred I. du Pont (potent Wilmington, Del. financier) is now engaged in divorcing herself from one Harold Glendenning, Rhodes scholar, son of a mail carrier (TIME, June 7). The former Margarette du Pont, daughter of Irenée du Pont (onetime President of E.. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-explosives, industrial chemicals) is now married to one C. H. Greenwalt, Philadelphia chemist. (TIME, June...
After some hesitancy, Secretary Mellon undertook a "common sense" defense of everyone's expenses. Wages of political workers had risen like other wages, he said. It had cost $42,000 merely to mail one letter to every registered Pennsylvania voter. Huge advertisements had been thought necessary to combat the appetizing Vare beer cry. Political moneys spent in Pennsylvania were "as legitimate as money given to a church." If there was a culprit it was no man but the direct primary itself...
...teetering as if its courage were buffeted away. Two small pieces fell from it. It twirled reluctantly, then dropped like a shot bird. Farmer Letendre extricated from the wreck the remains of Pilot Elmer Lee Partridge. Partridge had just left Minneapolis on the inaugural southbound trip of an air mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying the new route that day were blown astray. Partridge is believed to have had no parachute. Colonel Charles M. Dickinson, president of the Aero Club of Illinois, the body that has the Government contract for the new route...