Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopes of reaching the unprecedented altitude of 15 miles in next summer's National Geographic-Army Air Corps stratosphere flight were expressed last night by Albert W. Stevens, lecturer on Aerophotography and captain in the United States Army Air Corps, in an illustrated lecture before an audience of 200 persons...
Captain Stevens also told the story of last summer's balloon journey, in which he and two other army officers attained the altitude of 62,000 feet before they were forced to land. The present world record stands at 11 8-10 miles and was made in 1933 by the...
Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of California's Board of Prison Terms and Paroles and at the moment none was particularly happy about it...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy...
Election prospects revolve around the Conservative Premier, his official opponent Liberal Party Leader William Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against...