Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors of a Sheffield resignation began to circulate as far back as last summer when the Ambassador visited the U. S. for a conference with the President, then vacationing in the Adirondacks. For that trip, however, the Ambassador had purchased a round-trip ticket, and he was soon back in Mexico City. (President Coolidge in the letter quoted above referred to "the suggestion you made in the summer of 1926?that you did not wish to remain in Mexico...
...first time, discussed dentists, avoided politics. Governor Moody was in Manhattan as the head of a Goodwill Delegation of some 125 Texans, touring the North and East, proving that the modern Texan costume includes no six-shooter, preaching the doctrine of economic interdependence among 48 states. The trip had been designed on a strictly non-political basis, Governor Moody having repeatedly refused to discuss either "politics or personalities." He did say, however, that in Texas the Ku Klux Klan is "as dead as the proverbial doornail...
...Schwimmer, a Hungarian, has an international reputation as author, lecturer, pacifist, has frequently accused the U. S. of "militarism." Her eloquence helped in persuading Henry Ford that he could take an ocean trip and stop the World War-a proceeding which was generally felt to have added much to the existent European impression of the U. S. as a country richly peopled with moneyed madmen...
...born in Winchester, Va., 37 years ago. Adventurous at 12, he took a trip around the world, during which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours...
Last week, Mr. Bellanca announced that he had contracted to build five triple-motored planes for passenger service between New York and Chicago. The trip will be made in seven and a half hours. The fare (one way) will be in the neighborhood of $60-50% greater than railroad fare. Each plane will carry twelve passengers, a pilot-navigator and a steward who will serve meals, operate the radio and be emergency pilot. The cost of each plane, equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, will be $28,500. The company will be financed by A. R. Martine of the Bankers...