Word: trying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Jean Fabry, Right. Navy: Deputy François Piétri, the last to try to form a Cabinet last week before M. Laval was called...
Hero of U. S. air transport from infancy to maturity was the trimotored Ford. Today fast low-wing Boeings, Douglases and Lockheeds have displaced the "Tin Goose" on most U. S. airlines, and many of the 200-odd Ford tri-motors have gone to South America. Of all the "Tin Geese," none was more familiar to U. S. citizens than the one which for five years has been displayed in the concourse of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station...
...First tri-motor to cross the Rockies in regular passenger service, it was originally bought by John Maddux for his Los Angeles-San Francisco airline, later by T. A. T.-Maddux for transcontinental service. Placed in Penn Station as a living advertisement for air travel, it had long ago ceased to be anything more than a curio. Last week 30 students from the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics at Newark removed the old-fashioned wicker chairs from the cabin, dismantled the wings, motors, fuselage, shipped the parts to Dearborn, Mich, where they will be reassembled as a permanent exhibit...
...newspaper publisher could if he would put in the entire second half of April hobnobbing in hotel lobbies; perching on gilt chairs in improvised conference halls; rising to perfunctory votes of thanks; hoisting highballs in smoke-filled rooms; puffing after-dinner cigars while the tri-colored dessert melts, the ice-water turns tepid, the cigaret butts float in the coffee saucers, and the speaker of the evening warms to his subject of "Freedom of the Press." For the last half of April traditionally is the season when men of the Press come together to talk about their business...
Coolidge debating medals of gold were awarded to all those who debated in the tri-meet. Besides the three above men, medals were awarded to Irving R. Murray '36, Thomas W. Stephenson '37, and Powers McLean...