Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Peter Wright, author, in a recently published volume entitled Portraits and Criticisms, declared that...
...President gave a luncheon in honor of Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Foreign Minister. The other guests included Mr. John Hays Hammond, Chairman (1922-3) of the onetime U. S. Coal Commission; J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State; James C. White...
...Economy. (She has received a salary of $4,000 or $5,000 a year.) Her duties will be partly taken over by Mrs. Coolidge's private secretary, Miss Mary Randolph of Virginia, and partly by the State Department under the supervision of Third Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright; Charles Lee Cooke having direct charge of sending all official invitations...
...Retorted Wright: "The earliest date on which it can be claimed that the Langley machine was capable of sustained flight is the date on which the defects which prevented its free flight in 1903 were remedied. That date has not yet arrived...
...Manly invited Mr. Wright to put up $10,000 which, with a like sum of his own, would recondition the ancient plane for flight. This offer was declined by Mr. Wright, who professed to have better uses for his money. Meanwhile, the plane, which may be hoisted once more by its own petard, retains the proud...