Word: round-the-world
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Pilot Pangborn revealed the break. He said that more than a year before they took off on their round-the-world flight he and Socialite Herndon made a "gentleman's agreement" to divide all proceeds equally. Shortly before the flight, he declared, Herndon insisted on a 75-25 contract forbidding Pangborn to lecture or write for publication about the flight without Herndon's permission. Pangborn did not then withdraw "because all my friends would have thought I was yellow...
...Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder...
Approved a Cabinet spanking quietly administered to florid, genial James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions, who had planned for himself & family a glorious round-the-world junket, visiting all the dominions preliminary to next year's Imperial Conference at Ottawa...
...been due to the new shippers, but another part has been due to Mr. Joyce's feeling that "the trouble is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." When last July President Boatner had to resign because of ill health (he went on a round-the-world cruise with his sister) it was natural that energetic Mr. Joyce should become acting president. Railroadmen noted with interest last week that he had assumed the position permanently, will be operating head as well as financial guide...
...doctors' orders Mr. Lloyd George was preparing last week to start on a round-the-world cruise as soon as he is strong enough, searching for sunshine...