Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum, will again be in charge of the course this year. Lieutenant Thomas received the Shiff Trophy for Safe Flying, which was presented by President Colidge in 1925. He is credited with flying 500 hours without an accident in that year, the best record in the history of the naval air service...
Finally, a vote was taken on the appropriation. It passed 140 to 12, illustrating that verbosity means practically nothing except delay to the legislative machinery of the House. One item, however, of $500,000 for "under cover work" without record of expenditure was crossed...
...speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
Seat. Two New York Stock Exchange members sold their seats last week for record prices: Bennett Schneider sold to Kenneth Walsh of San Francisco for $170,000; C. V. Hoffman to Bernard L. Mensch of Manhattan for $175,000. The previous record price was $160,000 (TIME...
Mary W. Harriman, widow of Railroad-Financier Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909): "The gold medal which I give annually to the railroad with the best non-accident record again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager, built up the Union Pacific system. My sons are both directors. The Union Pacific, which received the medal in 1925 for its 1924 record, obtained the present award because last year its locomotives traveled the equivalent of 53,000,000 miles and carried the equivalent...