Word: petrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Mitchell, onetime stormy petrel of U. S. aviation. Reason: "President Coolidge has been handling the government...for a small group interested primarily in their own well-being...
...midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques del Duero. On the bridge...
Motter Ella Reeves Bloor, widely known as "the stormy petrel of Passaic" will be the guest of the Liberal Club at luncheon today. Mother Bloor, who has been prominent in the Workers' Party for several years, has recently been active in the textile strike in Passaic...
Died. Carroll Smalley Page, 82, at Hyde Park, Vt., of a stroke of paralysis. He was from 1917 to 1923 the "oldest member of the U. S. Senate"; famed "Stormy Petrel of Vermont Politics" and one-time Governor of Vermont (1890-1892); noted senatorial champion of "a big navy...
...moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union...