Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War and prominent Cleveland attorney, will head a distinguished special board to investigate the army's tragic experiences in flying the air mail...
...TIME trying to show up our kind President by emphasizing the tragic fate of our Army mail flyers...
...York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye interviewed a Royalist leader whose name he was unable to divulge. Said the latter: "I want to deny most decidedly all rumors about the possibilities of a Habsburg putsch, of romantic airplane flights to claim the throne and so forth. The tragic outcome of Otto's father's experiments in that direction is warning enough for him. Empress Zita is equally determined not to let her son risk his luck as a royal adventurer. The family has never
Sued for Divorce. Joan London Mala-muth. daughter of the late Novelist Jack London; by Charles Malamuth, linguist, onetime University of California professor; in Los Angeles. Reasons: She read his mail, played jazz while he wrote "tragic scenes," deserted...
...action of the President in ordering a curtailment of army flying is such a retreat. It is the abandonment of an experiment that proved tragic. The death of ten army mail flyers persuaded Mr. Roosevelt to act quickly. But when he recommends that the pending legislation be passed at once, the Chief Executive may also have been wrongly advised. For the bills which have been drafted at the request of the Post Office Department would, as they now are worded, prevent the re-establishment of air mail service in America...