Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami's International Airport to see Calhoun off on a business trip to Caracas. Just before take-off time, he pulled a wad of newspaper clippings from his pocket. "Show these to the boys in the office when you get to Caracas," he said. That evening, when the plane landed at La Guaira airport, a delegation of brown-faced, unsmiling Venezuelan army officers met Calhoun. The reason: since December, exiled Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos had been an intermittent guest in the cozy, twelve-room villa of Father-in-law Stevens on Miami's Star Island...
...Calhoun's wife, worried because she had not heard from him, phoned her father. Stevens got his Caracas office on his son-in-law's trail. Next day, at the U.S. embassy's insistence, Calhoun was released-and escorted by armed guards to a U.S.-bound plane...
...Very Rev. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, still talking about his last trip around the Soviet Union (in a plane which Moscow placed at his disposal), once more insisted that everything was just fine behind the Iron Curtain. "They told me there was complete freedom for their churches," he burbled happily. "I am not saying 'new liberty,' because the same liberty existed before the war. [Now the Russians] have re-emphasized...
...College Plane...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick, whose whirlwind trip through Latin America has already been marked by banquets and speeches in half a dozen countries (and by a small fire in his private plane as it flew over Colombia), reached a new high in Argentina. He and his wife were honor guests at a four-hour luncheon at the Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award...