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About six weeks ago American Airlines got a new advertising agency-Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Shortly afterward there began to appear in newspapers and magazines large advertisements, decorated with a photograph of an exuberant girl in a bathing suit and captioned rhetorically: Is there a Low-Level Airway through Southern Sunshine to California? "Fortunately" said the advertisement, "the answer...
...Franklin Roosevelt. When the President at the opening of his first term gave vigorous encouragement to the World Economic Conference convened in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and then proceeded from Washington to withdraw his support and wreck that conference, British public opinion was incensed. Soon afterward, however, the British began little by little to be dazzled by the bursting glory of the New Deal. Their own Cabinet, under the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and his budget-balancing Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared...
Several days afterward, when the world press had ceased front-paging the Soviet election, Moscow officials unobtrusively announced that 1,334,124 votes were "scratched"- that is, the name of the Stalinist candidate was struck out by voters. The further official admission was made that "more than 2,000,000 votes were also invalidated in other ways...
...Chivalry. Göring, one of the Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...
Meanwhile, Jesse Jones, whose Reconstruction Finance Corp. has made immense railroad loans, had the ear of President Roosevelt. To the White House the President soon afterward called newshawks to unburden himself. First, he said, he had discussed the advisability of the RFC making further small railroad loans. Asked if the Government would do anything else for the lines, he declared that the major responsibility rested on the ICC, that rail-road economics is one of the most serious problems facing the nation, that he did not believe any member of the ICC yet had a good solution for the problem...