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August 5, 1938

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CORRIGAN ACCLAIMED HERE IN NOISY HARBOR GREETING: GETS CITY WELCOM TODAY; GRINS AT 'MISTAKE' If All His Errors Are 'Like This One I'm All Right,' Flier Says THRONGS BESET HIS PATH He Retires Early to Rest for His Triumphal Parade Up Lower Broadway Today Center of a Hubbub Airport Sighted Eventually Gives a Brief Interview CORRIGAN HAILED ON RETURN HERE Liner Delayed by Fog Fleet Trails the Manhattan and Gives Flier Noisy Welcome SHIPS IN BAY GREET HIM CORRIGAN AWARD URGED California Legislator to Ask Congressional Medal Fireworks Pop for Corrigan

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' Grounding' of Corrigan Ends as He Arrives Here

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Douglas Corrigan can spread his wings again. The Commerce Department's ban on his flying activities ended tonight. The Department, to "punish" him for flying to Ireland without its approval, suspended his pilot's certificate, but the punishment worked out this way:

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