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Not until last week had any man actually flown under his own power with wings. That man was Clem Sohn, 23-year-old professional parachute jumper of Lansing, Mich. Strictly speaking, his adventure was not so much a flight as a sustained fall. Yet fly he did, on homemade wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wing Man | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

After the Senate rebuffed the President, Secretary of State Lansing hastily cabled that "the United States will not at present support any demand for the extradition of the ex-Kaiser or participate in any way in his trial should it occur."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bigger? Better? Brighter? | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Michigan's Frank D, Fitzgerald has the distinction of being one of seven Republicans to take command of a State in 1934. He began his career as a page in the Michigan Legislature. Later he became a 32 degree Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a Maccabee. an Eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Concerns & Commencements | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Governor-elect Fitzgerald had already been unfortunate. On Nov. 6 the voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Concerns & Commencements | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

After the fire which destroyed the Kerns Hotel at Lansing, Mich. last week, Representative John Dykstra of Muskegon declared: "The only reason I'm alive now is that I spent so much time in the hotel that I knew every turn in its corridors." It was the same with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Legislators at Lansing | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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