Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorry I cannot accept the bouquet tossed at me in TIME, July 10, under Transport, and for the record I am giving you below the information as to how the Quiet Birdmen received its name...
...Quiet Birdmen...
...evening I brought to the dinner Harold Hersey* at that time editor of Ace-High Magazine. The evening was a very entertaining one and quite noisy. Mr. Hersey turned to "Casey" Jones and said, "Well, you fellows certainly are noisy when you get together but you are quiet when anyone asks you to talk about your flying exploits. Just a bunch of quiet birdmen...
...Henry Street, on Manhattan's lower East Side, were bothered a lot by Walter Ferguson, 45, an unemployed handy man who lived on the third floor. He had religious fits. He shouted a lot, preached the doctrines of Father Coughlin. The only person who could quiet him was Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Schneider, 55, a midget who lived on the fourth floor...
...entire Cabinet to famed Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo, where they paid their respects to Japan's war dead. At noonday there was a moment of silence. There were no parades, no brass bands, no excitement. Correspondents described the atmosphere in the Japanese capital as one of quiet resignation, with stronger indications than ever before that the Japanese people, going into the third year of war, would welcome peace. It was the second anniversary of the start of the "China incident," and there was plainly nothing much to celebrate...