Word: schlee
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...honest and no doubt sincere zeal, would be interested probably to learn that Consul General Curtis never drinks beer, and mayhap was distinctly embarrassed by being pushed into the picture as a member of the Brock-Schlee reception committee in the interest of American aviation to view the stein-clicking proclivities of Messrs. Brock and Schlee who no doubt thoroughly enjoy beer-drinking in jurisdictions where it is not a crime. If an American representative abroad may not be permitted in the vicinity of alcoholic beverages nor witness drinking it would be necessary to withdraw all of our representatives, pending...
...Detroit, William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, around-the-world flyers, winged their way. As they landed, crowds surged in upon them. Into Mr. Schlee's arms rushed his wife. As he was pushed through the crowds on his way to City Hall, congratulatory hands clapped him on the back, hundreds of people shouted at him from all directions, automobile sirens shrieked in his ears. Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems...
...Suicide." Commenting on complaints by Globe-flyers William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee that the U. S. Navy had refused to help them, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur last week said: "As long as I have anything to do with the Navy it will do nothing to aid and abet men to commit suicide...
Four weeks ago a monoplane jumped eastward from Newfoundland to break the record for a journey around the world. At the controls sat William S. Brock; beside him sat Edward F. Schlee...
Nineteenth Day. The Pride of Detroit dropped at Tokyo. There Mr. Schlee found a cablegram: "Daddy: Please take the next boat home to us. We want you. (signed) Rosemarie." Rosemarie is ten. Soon wires under the Pacific were alive with news that the around-the-world flight was at an end. Mr. Schlee's reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu...