Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goal was San Francisco, but fog shut in, the flyers grew exhausted, and finally they turned back from Eugene, Ore., landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash. Bewhiskered, red-eyed and tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while...
African Holiday. In 1935 Harry C. Pearson, a onetime Chicago insurance-man, took his wife and camera to Central Africa, trekked 11,000 miles through the jungle. A plotless safari, the Pearson film record lavishes hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall...
...Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round, the lively syndicated column of Washington tips and chitchat produced by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, there appeared one day last week the following item: ''Mrs. Farley, who is always complaining that Jim would rather make speeches than make enough money to buy her a car, grouses privately against the Roosevelts. She thinks the President has not properly recognized her husband's ability...
That curious observation obviously demanded explanation, and indignant Columnists Pearson & Allen were glad to give it. As written and dispatched by United Feature Syndicate (Scripps-Howard) to its 300 subscriber newspapers, including two Hearstpapers, the day's column had contained in addition to the above quotation a startling piece of news. Under Hearst pressure, United Feature had ordered this news killed...
...news which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers...