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Lieut. Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Sweet | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...guidance" of local D. A. R. chapters in Massachusetts, to know who could safely be invited to make speeches. The persons proscribed ranged from Ben Gitlow, communist, to that eminent, peace-loving scientist, President-emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University.* The organizations included even such innocuities as the Y. M. and Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Daughter's Revolution | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury at Mineola, N. Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Wives | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Died. Thaddeus C. Sweet, 55, of Phoenix, N. Y.; member of Congress from New York; at Whitney Point, N. Y.; when the airplane in which he was riding made a forced landing and turned over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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