Word: valery
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Last week the lengthy job of repairing the Cathedral was completed. Solemnly on Sunday, Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, present Archbishop of Reims, consecrated the edifice for worship, in the presence of Monsignor Valerio Valeri, Papal Nuncio to France, and many another representative of Church and State...
...establish a transpolar airline to the U. S., it announced that its No. 1 flyer, Sigismund Levanevsky, would make the first trip (TIME, June 14 et seq.). Instead, this bootblack's son who is often called "the Soviet Lindbergh" was left behind at the last minute and Valeri Chkalov took his place. When the second successful junket was made month later by three other Soviet airmen, Flyer Levanevsky began to be mentioned in dispatches as in jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin's current purges. Last week, however, when the third flight was launched...
...plane was a three-year-old ANT-25 (the initials for Designer A. N. Tupoleff) monoplane with one engine, 112 ft. wingspread. To fly it Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept...