Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Virginia to the front. Throughout the South Harry Flood Byrd is considered No. 1 prospective nominee - his excellent record commands attention. Recent group meetings in Virginia, Carolinas, and ' other nearby states have ofttimes heard his name mentioned again and again. Last century - 1832 - Southerner Andrew Jackson, Tennessee-DEMOCRAT, began his second presidential term. History repeats, they say, and the South ? strongly coming forward. Who knows? Suggestion has been made that Republican Morrow oppose Democrat Byrd. Able campaigners would be son-in-law Colonel Lindbergh and Admiral (brother) "Dick" Byrd. The heavens would rain showers of political circulars. Certainly this...
...work of the Hostess House began in 1927 in a tenement on Shepard Street. The present establishment was given to the Medical Department by Miss Mabel Lyman in memory of her parents Arthur Theodore and Ella Lowell Lyman. The house at the present time is not a regular part of Harvard University...
...situation was known to exist in Bank of the United States. In 1913 this bank was formed in Manhattan's lower East Side. By 1928 it had grown one thousand-fold without a merger. Then, after Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. acquired a large block of its stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials in Washington have been closely watching its affairs, perhaps anxious that no harm should befall a Manhattan...
...last week Zeller and Wenzel were flying an experimental Ford tri-motor over their home field at Dearborn, Mich, in routine tests. Suddenly blue flames began to spew from two of the engines, enveloping the fuselage and wings. Zeller made a landing, but the ship nosed over, balanced for an instant, fell on its back, a blazing mass. Pilot Zeller, 26, and Mechanic Wenzel, 30, died...
...Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house in Pine Valley (in time to share Thanksgiving dinner with the occupants) -no speed champion, but possibly the youngest member...