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Headline personalities are made all the time. Just recently an army officer made himself into that very thing by contending that "the air's the thing." Having reached into the headlines some months ago, he reached into them again when the Shenandoah fell and inscribed the name of ."Mitchell" in bold black letters, coupling it with a fierce denunciation of incompetence in Army and Navy administration of their air forces...
...Lakehurst, N. J., in the very hangar where the Shenandoah's great body used to lie at rest, a naval court of inquiry met last week to determine the cause of her destruction, to ascertain why she was rent in two in mid air, while her control car went dashing to the ground to carry to death her Commander, Zachary Lansdowne, and many of his officers and men (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS...
...Department prepared to court-martial Colonel Mitchell for his reflections on his superiors in his attacks on the air policy of the Government, and the Navy Department assembled a Board of Inquiry at Lakehurst, N. J. to inquire into the causes and responsibility for the sinking of the Shenandoah...
German. Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed Zeppelin expert, failed miserably in an attempt to take up a collection among patriotic Germans for the purpose of building a Zeppelin and beating Amundsen to the pole. The Shenandoah disaster (TIME, Sept. 14, AERONAUTICS) is said to have made many a German leery of the Zeppelin type of aircraft...
...When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...