Word: lendrum
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Pleased, the delegates listened to greetings from Maine's Democratic Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, raised to the presidency their Vice President Clayton Rand of the Gulfport (Miss.) Guide, decided the best editorial page in their membership was that put out by Charles Lendrum Ryder of the Cobleskill (N. Y.) Times, wound up their meeting by setting out on a 1,000-mi. boat and bus junket through the state of Maine...
Died. Brigadier General William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, 56, commander of the U. S. Air forces in France during the World War; of coronary occlusion; in Manhattan. He returned from the War with six medals, an unswerving conviction that the Army and Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging...