Word: safes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that Mr. Hoover was going to appoint Col. Lindbergh to his sub-cabinet in charge of civil aeronautics. Mr. Hoover promptly changed the subject of conversation...
Came the first Congress under the new President - that Congress which first brought the Scandinavian glassblower and dirt farmer, Magnus Johnson, to Washington. Then, Mr. Coolidge's first message to the Congress, the message which dealt with everything in a few blunt monosyllables and proved that he was "safe...
Swampscott, Mass., 1925. The man who went to Swampscott had stepped into the Presidency as a silent, cautious, rather wry myth. He had proved himself safe. He suffered himself to be photographed pitching hay for the 1924 campaign and on March 4, 1925, the people let him put his hand on the Bible from which he had learned to read at the age of four, and swear to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Soon Mr. Pitcairn and Señor de la Cierva may be reimbursed for their experimental investment. The autogiro is entered in the Guggenheim Fund's "safe aircraft competition" to develop an aerodynamically safe plane. Twelve U. S.. British and Italian manufacturers have already entered the competition. First prize is $100,000. There are also five $10,000 prizes...
...University team will be shut out is the 45-yard high hurdles. Caruthers of Cornell headed the timber-toppers in last year's classic, tying the triangular meet record of six seconds. Heasely, his teammate is not capable of equaling that performance, but is expected to finish a safe second. Alcorn, Green hurdler who captured second honors last year, is generally conceded the leader in this class. He has been clocked at 6 2-5 seconds in a recent time trial at Hanover in the 50 yard hurdles. Putnam will most probably finish third for another Dartmouth point...