Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Agriculture Hyde will go to California to meet Mrs. Hyde on her return from the Orient...
Sigfried Hoofien, general manager of the Orient Anglo-Palestine Co. Ltd.: Order of the British Empire...
...last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh telephoned the State Department in Washington and said that Undersecretary Castle might announce that Col. Lindbergh and wife would soon fly to the Orient-"if the press was interested." The press was interested and scampered, hundred-legged, after the Lindberghs. Publicity-wise cities on the Pacific coast -San Francisco, Seattle, Ketchikan, Alaska-employed the telegraph to urge their airports upon the flyer as the "logical jumping-off point" for his flight. The known facts...
...eastern route. Greenland has been attained by planes from North America or Europe three times before. Spitsbergen figured importantly in the Arctic flights of Wilkins, Byrd, Amundsen. But no plane has yet blazed a trail thence into the Orient. Greatest danger on either route: fog. The Lindbergh plane is radio-equipped. Mrs. Lindbergh, who qualified for a private pilot's license last fortnight, will share the controls...
...From 1914-27 he was director of Manhattan's Labor Temple School. He is married, has one daughter (Ethel Benvenuta), lives at Great Neck, L. I., where for the last five years he has been working on a five-volume Story of Civilization. The first volume, on the Orient, is to be published next year. Other books: Transition, The Mansions of Philosophy, The Case for India...