Word: unis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First one-eyed pilot to fly the Atlantic, Pilot Post was not the first to try. Before him went Francis Coli, lost in 1927 with Charles Nungesser; and Walter G. Hinchliffe, lost with the Hon. Elsie Mackay in 1928. Other famed uni-oculars: Golfer Tommy Armour, Reporter Floyd Gibbons, Gatecrasher "One-Eye" Connelly, Admiral Lord Nelson, Reformer William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, "Big Bill" Heywood, Fisticuffer Harry Greb...
...should be called to the witness stand but Smith Wildman Brookhart Jr., the Iowa Senator's slender, soft-voiced, studious son, aged 25. When the Senator arrived in Washington in 1926, Son Brookhart had been given a clerical job with the Trade Commission. Graduated from George Washington Uni versity in 1929, he was promoted to the rank of a Commission economist and investigator. Married, father of a year-old daughter, he is now studying law. Phase II began with a scrutiny by Son Brookhart of huge North American Co.'s structure and functions. Examiner Brookhart testified that...
...regard to your long article on Duke Uni-versity in the April 27 issue of TIME, I would like to correct several errors. Instead of paying i$<:' for moving picture shows on the campus, we pay 251' and I would also like to point out that Mr. W. N. Reynolds is not President of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. but is chairman of the board. Otherwise the article was very satisfactory and I commend you most highly...
...Sigma Kappa fraternity at the Uni-versity of Kentucky last week ousted Mc-Chord Christie, 23-year-old senior. He had snooped, tattled, aided Federal agents in raiding a college rooming house and a student-patronized speakeasy. It was pointed out that McChord Christie had himself once engaged in legging. Said he: "I am on the other side now, though, and I am not going to stop until I have cleaned up college bootlegging in Lexington...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...