Word: pan-american
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...glittering table like two horseshoes laid end to end was spread in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan-American Union Building. Mr. Gann found his seat seventh from the foot of one horseshoe. On his left was Mrs. William Braden, wife of the Chilean copper operator. On his right was a Mrs. Paul Wooton, wife of the Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Wilbur has been President of the American Medical Association, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Pan-American Commission. "Yes-men" are not chosen for such honors. When he became President of Stanford University he made many radical changes there and formulated policies which were opposed by a large majority of the Alumni, but in spite of this opposition, he did not swerve from the lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself...
...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
...landed in Havana from British Honduras one evening last week in a Sikorsky amphibian, he eyed the thronging newsgatherers more moodily than ever. He knew their eagerness this time was not solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might...
...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...