Word: stanley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
...Protestant leader made answer. Of representative Protestant journals, only the Christian Herald took notice of the Pope's statement. Editor Stanley High quoted it, made no comment. Said an editor of the Protestant Episcopal Churchman: "Only the Protestant editors are getting more and more exhausted...
...seasonal present to its readers, that elegant monthly The Sportsman issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds...
...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa...