Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours after the "persuasion" of Mayor Walker, upon the scene arrived Manhattan's short, swart, bustling Congressman Fiorella H. LaGuardia, to start his campaign for the Republican nomination to run against Mayor Walker. Said he: "The situation is by no means hopeless. . . . The big task is to find candidates with fighting hearts...
...brain to indicate that he was drunk at the time of his crash (TIME, July 8, 15). Last week a Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner, held an inquest. The autopsy evidence was not offered in evidence. Witnesses who were close to Stultz before his fatal flight said they did not consider him drunk then. So the Coroner's decision was that Stultz died of a broken neck while doing a "falling leaf...
...boat slid out with ponderous ease across the glassy water after taxiing about for practice, the helmsman circled back for another signal, opened the throttles wide. After a run of 30 seconds, the gigantic ship lifted clear of the lake and flew. Dr. Dornier bursting with excitement and relief, said: "It is going to be a wonderful flying machine." He is looking for a buyer...
...morning after Operating Day, Edward of Wales made a speech at the opening of the International Aero Exhibition. "I know that you will be pleased," said he, "when I tell you that I had some definite conversation with the King this morning. He has stood the operation extremely well...
...Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years. It is always a case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms imposed...