Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christened. Paul Joseph William Ziluca, great grandson of General Giuseppe Garibaldi, famed liberator of Italy. His father: Captain Joseph N. Ziluca, war veteran, engineer & architect of Greenwich, Conn. His mother: Donna Josephine Ziluca, sister of General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford. His godfather: Sir Thomas Lipton...
...tired men were helped from the plane. One was Captain C. B. D. Collyer, onetime air mail flyer, veteran of many a notable flight, who had unassisted and sleepless stuck to the stick all the way from Roosevelt Field, L. I. The other was Harry Tucker of Los Angeles, well-known sportsman, owner of the plane...
Died. Clayton Darius Lee, 62, veteran newsman, who helped found the United Press in 1907, who served it as president for six years; after four years illness; in Maplewood...
...Holmes' statement, "The Republican party showed dangerous signs of corruption during the early years of President Harding's administration", is indefensibly pianissimo. I believe very few Republicans will tone down the oil; and veteran bureau scandals to "dangerous signs...
...feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture...