Roosevelt Takes Flight guide-history-buffs John Pramesa

John Pramesa

I don't bother with pennies

" In his career

' The downside was hinted at by the nickname of the new Brooklyn baseball team

hit more homers in a single season (1920) than any one team

Roosevelt Takes Flight guide-history-buffs John PramesaWhile participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign in St. Louis, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was invited to fly in a biplane with aviator Arch Hoxsey. A day later, on October 12, 1910, the event was front page news. It was reported in The Times that a "broad grin of delight spread over the Colonel's face and his eyes fairly shown with pleasure" when Hoxsey invited him for a flight over St. Louis Aviation Field. "You're not going up,