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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced, last week, the existence of 4,134 civilian-owned airplanes, airships and balloons in the U. S. California skies are flecked with over 600 private aircraft, New Yorkers own 387. Other strongly air-minded states are: Illinois-350; Michigan-291; Texas-269; Ohio-231; Missouri-216; Pennsylvania-212. Rhode Island has nine civilian planes; Vermont, only three. Despite the heavy population of the East, Westerners and Middle Westerners are manifestly more eager to soar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Vermont, i each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reapportionment | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Advisory Chairman-Peter Gollet Gerry, the wealthy well-born Harvard-bred hound-riding U. S. Senator from Rhode Island who upset traditional Republican calculations in his state as a young man (1916-he is now 48) and has since continued popular with his state's large labor vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Raskob et Al. | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Married. Betty Brown Tailer, 17, Manhattan scioness, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer; to Walter Gurnee Dyer, son of Brig. Gen. George R. Dyer, grandson of onetime Governor Elisha Dyer of Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...Governor Sam A. Baker were all placed in nomination. But up got Senator Borah, out boomed the great Borah voice, up jumped the Kansans in a repetition of their Curtis demonstration the night before. The four other nominees withdrew. The Curtis delegate-daughter, handsome Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Rhode Island, seconded her father in 17 words after a seconding speech by New Jersey's (Senator) Walter Evans Edge, who removed the last trace of competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vice Presidency | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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