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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flying Club, stressed the importance of sound instruction for the student flyer. The rest of the evening was devoted to speeches outlining the Club's plans for the year. The policy is basically the same as last year, but it was announced that in the future the Club would admit no associate, or non-flying, members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club Hears Robert Love at Year's First Meeting | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Last week came evidence to prove that Tom Heflin's infinite persistence merited not sympathy but admiration. A quick question from the Birmingham News & Age Herald's Russell Kent caught Attorney-General Homer Stille Cummings off guard, forced him to admit that Mr. Heflin had been doing some kind of nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tom-Tom Tom | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

There seems to be a real reason for the oft roiterated cry for a more perfect union of national forces; about 50 per cent of the common people appear to be apathetic toward the Japanese imperialistic polic in Asia. Furthermore, the controlled press is quite willing to admit that the Japanese financial position is very precarious at the present time...

Author: By Malcolm R. Wilkey, | Title: Harvard Undergraduate Describes Signs in Japan that "China Incident" Is Real War | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...island." Naturalists Anthony and Andrews trapped or shot more mice, woodrats, chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said, seemed to have forgotten how to bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasureless Island | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Well on his wav to becoming the dean of doodlebug promoters last week. Don Zeiter is a dour 41-year-old Ohioan so close-mouthed that he will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doodlebug Derby | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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