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Word: majority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Are we ever going to hear the last of the hysterical ravings over Charles Lindbergh and be informed of one kindly deed, one generous donation, one appreciative gesture, any tribute of love and acknowledgments of his mother's part-the major part, of this overrated, childishly magnified onetime flight across the Atlantic? Perhaps you too will dare to say the Eagle has pig's feet. ALVA REMING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Five O'Clock Nest | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Last week a piece of paper awaiting his signature brought President Hoover memories. The paper was an order promoting Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. Marine Corps, to the rank of Major-General. The President's memories were of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when he, then a young mining engineer, had discussed the defense of Tientsin with Smedley Darlington Butler, then an enthusiastic Second Lieutenant of Marines just turned 19. President Hoover signed the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Youngest Major-General | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

FOCH SPEAKS-Major Charles Bugnet -Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monsieur Foch | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

More Gliders. Against Glider, Inc., Detroit's motorless plane manufacturer, last week developed a competitor, American Motorless Aviation Corp. President is Colonial Airways' president, Major General John F. O'Ryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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