Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from a year's research these facts & fancies...
...been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. Started in 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of the founder of Collier's Weekly, the Collier Trophy was awarded the first year to Glenn H. Curtiss, the second year to Orville Wright. Since then it has been won, among others, by the U. S. Air Mail Service (twice), the U. S. Army Air Service, Elmer A. Sperry (twice), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (see p. 41). Last year's winner: Glenn Luther Martin...
...names that were once big in two big cities made news last week as the result of Federal proceedings against them. In Manhattan the lawyers of elderly Joseph Wright Harriman were doing their utmost before a judge and jury to keep their client from going to jail on a charge of misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other...
...radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed not at Gossip Winchell's premature revelation but at the Columbia School of Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor Hamilton hotly declared: "I think it's outrageous. The opinion of the judges, who selected...
...radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein...