Word: apr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Bear Coat, better known as Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., took his grandchildren to Ringling's circus, at Washington. "You know I never miss the circus," said he to Mr. John Ringling (TIME, Apr. 6, THE THEATRE), whom he met at the Big Tent's door. He, his grandchildren and their maternal grandmother took seats in the third row not far from Mrs. Coolidge. Round the big ring slipped the introductory pageant of horses, elephants, clowns. The old man, Bear Coat, suddenly fell backward. A physician at hand caught him, carried him beneath...
...Premier Georges Clemenceau telegraphed Mme. Mangin: "He was a great soldier." Major General Robert Lee Bullard, onetime (Oct. 11, 1918-Apr. 15, 1919) Commander of the U. S. , Second Corps Area, cabled from his sick bed in Fort Totten Army Hospital: "Goodby, beloved comrade. Goodby, thou undaunted spirit." The General's Negro body servant walked alone and silently near his master's coffin. Many distinguished persons, including Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and Colonel H. H. Harjes of Morgan, Harjes et Cie., were, present...
...court martial sitting at Sofia to try persons accused of complicity in the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27, et seq.), sentenced eight men to death...
...Loening Amphibians to be used in the MacMillan expedition (TIME, Apr. 20) passed their tests last week, after a highly satisfactory flight from Mitchel Field, L.I., to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, Washington, D.C, and were formally accepted. In acceptance trials, the OL-1, as the Amphibian is officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision...
...Washington, D. C, 24 carrier pigeons were prepared for an Arctic expedition to accompany Explorer MacMillan polewards (TIME, Apr. 20, AERONAUTICS ; see also Page 20) in June. Although denied all other luxuries, the birds, passionately addicted to tobacco, were provided with "an ample chewing ration...