Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Roosevelt (United States)-Peter A. Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania. On the Conte Rosso (Lloyd Sabaudo) -Giulio Setti, Metropolitan Opera Co. chorus master; singers from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges Car pentier and his manager, volatile Francois Descamps. On the Majestic (White Star)-Florence Easton, Metropolitan Opera singer; Samuel H. Church...
Lieutenants Smith and Nelson, U. S. ''air Magellans," rested in Ivigtut, Greenland, installed new motors in their planes, took test spins, then sat watching the weather. A hurricanic storm had been reported sweeping toward the Labrador coast whither they were bent...
After the storm had broken and the skies had cleared, Lieut. Smith wirelessed Admiral Magruder, commanding the naval patrol fleet, that he and Nelson would hop off for Ice Tickle, two miles east of Indian Harbor. The four ships strung out between Ivigtut and the Labrador coast was notified...
...presented a letter from the American Air Attaché of the Embassy in Rome. This missive, 20 days old, was full of cordial greetings, hearty wishes; it brought smiles to the windburnt Icarians. Locatelli stated that he would fly to the U. S. with the homing planes of Lieuts. Nelson and Smith...
...three planes took the air, pointing their noses north. Almost immediately they become separated; the fog was impenetrable. Hopeless of keeping their course, and fearing a collision, two planes-those of Lieuts. Smith and Wade-wheeled and turned back toward Scotland. One, the New Orleans of Lieut. Eric Nelson, kept on. Over 500 miles of icy and puckered water, through the confusing mist-banks, the New Orleans flew like a bodiless falcon, invisible, intrepid, swift. At first Lieut. Nelson feared that the course was lost Then he sighted the Billing sley, from which he took his direction...