Word: robb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said forthright Captain Gill Robb Wilson, former National Aeronautic Association president and onetime Lafayette Escadrille pilot, in his copyrighted New York Herald Tribune column this week: "An International Air Conference is due to open around Japanese cherry blossom time. The blossoms and the conference appear to have much in common-neither promises fruit, fragrance or future. Of course, we can go into the conference without a national policy, but we can also come out of it without either policy or pants...
INEZ CALLAWAY ROBB New York City
...Detroit bug-eyed businessmen heard a Lafayette Escadrille veteran, Gill Robb Wilson, now National Aeronautic Association president, say that their city would "have a pretty good chance" to become a great international air-transport center after the war. Already, said Captain Wilson, the bulk of U.S. planes taking...
...Elijah Mohammed, alias Muck-Muhd the Prophet, alias Poole, leader of the Temple of Islam, rolled up in a rug under his mother's bed. They locked up Stokley Delmar Hart, president of the Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America. They arrested F. H. Hammurabi Robb, director of the World Wide Friends of Africa. And they pinched Mme. Mittie Maud Lena Gordon, president general of the Peace Movement of Ethiopia...
Businessman Politician. New Jersey's Republicans had their closest primary ever. By noon next day Albert Wahl Hawkes, chairman of Congoleum-Nairn, knew that his party had chosen him for U.S. Senator over New Jersey State Aviation Director Gill Robb Wilson. Of his flyer in politics, Industrialist Hawkes says he hopes the voters will think: "Here's a fellow going on 64. Certainly he isn't trying to become a political boss." Albert Hawkes's interests lie in the field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter...