Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could not corner, however, was that proposed at Gravelly Point, because 1) it lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly Point, last spring he tried to jog the 75th Congress into doing something about it. He had dreamed about a bloody crackup at the present field. In its flurried closing days, however, Congress again failed to provide an airport site, but it did set up the coordinating Civil Aeronautics Authority, leaving it largely under Presidential control...
...Hampshire, Republican Arthur B. Jenks won nomination to contest once more against Democrat Alphonse Roy, whom the House seated in Mr. Jenks's stead last June after the latter had served all but six days of the 75th Congress (TIME, June 20). To contest against New Deal Senator Fred H. Brown, Republicans nominated Representative Charles W. Tobey, Townsend Planner...
Lippmann, writing in the special CRIMSON issue published on the occasion of Copeland's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him." Two of his works, the "Copeland Translations" and the "Copeland Reader," were described by Robert Hillyer '17, present holder of Copey's famous chair, an "a Harvard contribution to American letters of which we may justly be proud...
Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline...
...settlers have named the town of Kvutzat Aryeh in his honor. The children translated his first name as "Aryeh." Its meaning: "The Lion." Informed that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight ago, The Lion roared: "Mr. Henry Ford, in my opinion, is a damned fool for permitting the world's greatest gangster to give him this citation...