Word: schroeders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major Rudolph William Schroeder, 66, who in 1910 graduated from homemade gliders to airplanes, went on to become a barnstormer, test pilot and high-altitude pioneer; of a cerebral blood clot after long invalidism following a stroke in 1941; in Maywood, Ill. The first man ever to penetrate the stratosphere in an airplane, gangling (6 ft. 2 in., less than 150 Ibs.) "Shorty" Schroeder set a world altitude mark of 38,180 ft. in 1920 (he blacked out, and came to only after the plane had dived over six miles). His pet saying: "There is no place for heroes...
Republican leaders confidently predicted a victory early in the evening. Both Edmund R. Schroeder '53, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, and Early M. Kulp '52 1BS, former president of the Eisenhower for President Club, foresaw a GOP landslide...
...Schroeder, jublilant at Eisenhower's overwhelming lead, said, "At this time I can say with full confidence that we have never had it so good. I am tremendously gratified to see that the American people have finally seen through the Democratic propaganda and have decided that there must be an end to corrupt and inefficient government by deficit and patronage...
...think that Mr. Schroeder, of the Young Republican club, chose to ignore the real significance of the University polls, held this week. Whoever won, by 5, 10 or 20 votes, the results of the poll were remarkebly close for a school which has never given a Democratic candidates for President a majority...
CRIMSON managing editor Laurence D. Savadove issued the following statement last night in reply to Schroeder...