Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen. When the Graf Zeppelin saluted Manhattan's theatre crowds last fortnight in indefinite midnight farewell, it left in its airy wake the assurances of Dr. Hugo Eckener that regular trans-Atlantic service, by Zeppe lins as big as the Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would...
...Wake Forest College...
Whirlwinds of condemnation of the whole Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill continued to blow through the public press. President Hoover was implored to use his veto power. Potent businessmen were quoted at length on the economic evils that would follow in the law's wake. Editorial writers blazed away at it in long double-leaded leaders. The basic economic argument was as follows...
...ringed plover, "Billdeer." Crocodiles like plovers, not to eat but because the birds pick leeches and other parasites from saurian mouths. Also a sleepy crocodile knows that with a few plovers about it is safe to doze off because, should an enemy approach, the cries of the plovers will wake him up. Egyptian folklore teems with improving tales about the close, platonic friendships of crocodiles and plovers...
Born: on a Jones County, N. C. plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down...