Word: lear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, famed air traveler, who has comfortably covered 20,000 miles (Europe, Asia, East Indies) in his own plane, returned to the U. S. on the Carinthia in ample time to register so that he may vote for Nominee Smith...
...Lear Black* famed as the U. S. businessman who has taxied by air the largest number of miles, last fortnight gave up temporarily his most extensive taxi-tour. With one valet, two Dutch pilots and a sturdy triple-engined Fokker Jupiter plane, he set out a month ago to tour the world. No Jules Verne hero, he intended to break no record of speed, altitude, distance or endurance. He would go in a leisurely way from Croydon Airdrome, England, to Tokyo, and back, with sundry detours about the Mediterranean coast, in South Africa, and Mesopotamia-a matter...
...TIME, March 5, referred to Van Lear Black as the British born "owner of the Baltimore Sun papers, purser of a blockade-running munitions freighter during the great submarine war, navigator by sea and air." Actually he cannot himself navigate a ship or plane; has never been officially a purser; and is the U. S.-born chairman of the board of the A. S. Abell Co., publishers of the Baltimore Sun, the principal stockholders of which are Charles S. Abell, Harry C. Black, Van Lear Black, Joseph A. Blondell, Paul Patterson...
...himself has "always given a lot of attention to intellectual matters . . . right up on history . . . clear through both Wells' Outline of History, or practically through it, and also Van Lear's Story of Mankind, especially studying the illustrations . . . and now kind of specializing on philosophy . . . this Story of Philosophy . . . it gives you the whole contents of all philosophy in one book...
...suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that he would not dally with the "law reports of that learned man, William Shakespeare, especially the case of the Daughters v. King Lear." Federal Judge Smith Hickenlooper listened, pondered...