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Retirement. Lieut. Lester J. Maitland in the Herald-Tribune said that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh "is through
Irritation. Lieut. Maitland told of Col. Lindbergh's entertainment at a Long Island country club. "A plump matron rushed across the room to his table, flung her arms about his neck and kissed...
Transportation is essentially a matter of horses. First the two-legged human horse; then the four-legged horse; then the iron horse; now the air horse. Conspicuous ' among air horses is the Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty...
...speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail officials were deeply interested, pointing out that the invention if practicable, could drop directly on post-office building roofs. The inventor is Maitland B. Bleecker...
...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 and indicate...