Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public sale of Holy Cross tickets is now going on, and tickets can be secured at the H.A.A or Levity and Perirce's in Cambridge; and at Wright and Ditson and lver Johnson's in Boston...
Married. Miriam Harriman, daughter of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan; to Boykin Cabell Wright of the famed Virginia "Cabells, lawyer, assistant to Herbert Hoover at the Peace Conference; in St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan...
Fokker. At a dinner given by the Wright Aeronautical Co. in honor of Poleflyers Byrd and Bennett, up stood Anthony H. G. Fokker, Dutch designer of most of Germany's wartime planes, of the Pole-reaching Josephine Ford and many another efficient machine, to announce that he so believed in the U. S. as the chief flying nation of the future that he had determined to become a citizen, permanently coming over from the ranks of European engineers...
...fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last and arrive at destinations irst; also, he was aided by an able navigator, Brice Goldsborough of the Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure of the trimotored Ford...
...jurisdiction of Senator Reed and his Campaign Expenditures Committee, and who may have to answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare...