Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Friday 18 directors of General Electric Co. marched solemnly into the green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four inches, read to the assembled directors a letter, while Board Chairman Owen D. Young puffed a pipe. Nobody was taken by surprise. The previous evening they had all had a quiet evening talking about it at the Metropolitan Club: after serving 17 years together, and reaching G.E.'s retirement...
This week Father Coughlin celebrates his 48th birthday, in a new and spectacular way. For him will be held "Birthday Balls," like those for President Roosevelt. In Brooklyn, a Coughlin stronghold, an "American Citizens Committee" will hold a party whose proceeds (tickets 50?, box seats $1) will go to Father Coughlin, who will address the party by wire...
Coincident with the arrival in the U. S. of a copy of the 724-year-old Magna Charta (see p. 77), Connecticut last week became the 48th State to ratify the 150-year-old Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) of the U. S. Constitution. Urging the State Senate's unanimous vote on a joint resolution, State Senator Frank A. Murphy of Hartford expostulated: "Time marches...
Alec Templeton: Musical Impressions, Satires & Improvisations (Gramophone Shop, Inc., 18 East 48th Street, Manhattan: 8 sides). Blind musical Satirist Templeton's one-man caricatures of Wagnerian Opera, Lieder singing, etc., have long been featured entertainment at Rockefeller Center's swanky Rainbow-Room. Their recorded versions are guaranteed to split the solemnest concertgoer's sides...
...refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make the hazardous take-offs and landings he dreaded. Of the lost Russians not a trace was found...