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...first time Brothers Fred and Algene ("Al") Key of Meridian, Miss, attempted to break the world's airplane refueling endurance record, a broken cylinder head forced them down after 123 hr. The second time, a storm balked them after 169 hr. On June 4 the two brothers, who operate a flying school at Meridian, went up for a third try in their Wright-powered Curtiss Robin monoplane Ole Miss...
...Meridian, Miss...
Jimmie Rodgers, brakeman on the Southern Railway at Meridian, Miss., his birthplace, sang in a nasal, caressing voice each morning as he strolled to work...
...Rodgers now had money. His records were played throughout the South, in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India. He could buy all the whiskey he wanted to forget his pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole the show...
...bill passed the Senate without difficulty. When the House showed signs of balking, Senator Long strode up and down the aisles shouting "Vote Yes! Vote Yes!" The House voted Yes. Notably immune to the newspaper tax was Senator Long's political mouthpiece, American Progress, published at Meridian, Miss...