Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boss" Calles' Revenge. The "Political Boss" of Mexico is former President Plutarco Elias Calles, co-founder of the Grand Revolutionary Party with the late, great, assassinated President Alvaro Obregon. Last week he had revenge on District Attorney John A. Vails of Laredo, Tex., who had wished to arrest him on a murder charge as his special train passed through that city (TIME, Dec. 23), and who had denounced Calles to U. S, Secretary of State Henry L Stimson as "the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere."* Back in Mexico after a pleasure trip to Europe, General Calles...
...Last week Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder and president of the National Glider Association and president of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., announced that his aviation corporation had bought Gliders, Inc., largest U. S. manufacturers of gliders. He proposed to sell gliders at cost...
Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood...
Died. Lawrence Godkin, 69, son of the late famed Edwin Lawrence Godkin (editor of the New York Evening Post, founder of The Nation); in Manhattan...
Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...