Word: tried
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich's famed Brown House stood as empty as though a cyclone had swept through it. Chief of Staff Lutze reigned in Berlin and Adolf Hitler was rumored planning to make a clean sweep of non-Nazis when he took off at 4 p. m. in his giant tri-motor for Neudeck 250 miles away in East Prussia...
...virtuous decision to return Leticia to Mother Colombia. In a jungle clearing last week a Colombian trimotored plane waited to take out the League Commission. They struck their white flag and up amid huzzas went the bright gold, blue and red of Colombia. "Contact!" cried the pilot and the tri-motor roared. Said Guillermo Giraldez, Spanish President of the League Commission, as he took off: "An historic occasion! A festival of Peace...
Last week the Army and the airmail finally parted ways when the last route (Chicago-Pembina, N. Dak.) was taken over by Hanford Tri-State Air Lines. Meanwhile in Washington Congress was putting the finishing touches to the new Air Mail Law before sending it on to the White House. The act establishes a 6? airmail postage rate, provides one-year mail contracts with rates to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (maximum 40? per airplane mile), prohibits interlocking directorates and holding companies, limits each contractor to one primary and two secondary routes, permits carriers whose contracts were canceled...
...issued a call for candidates for his spring practice sessions. All returning members of the Varsity and Jayvee squads, and those Freshman who are not competing in other sports this spring, have been requested to report at the New Indoor Athletic Building next Monday to begin the series of tri-weekly practices...
...toppers to the start will be Walter Merwin, who won the IC4A title in New York. The other Red and White entries will be Irving and Bennett. However, Harvard has two hurdlers in Johnny and Dick Hayes, who should push Merwin to the limit and perhaps to a new Tri record...