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Instead of handing a jittery country a gold decision, the Supreme Court utilized Feb. 4 to hand a jolt to an individual. He was Lawyer-Lobbyist William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who last year allowed papers subpoenaed by the Senate's airmail investigation to be removed from his files and destroyed. After a hide & seek with the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934, et seq.) MacCracken was caught, sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt of the Senate. He appealed all the way to the Supreme Court which last week...
...about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation of the country's airmail contracts. Adopting the familiar strategy, he telephoned that good Democrat, roly-poly Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, asked him to chairman a Federal Aviation Commission to investigate all U. S. aviation. Mr. Howell, whose ignorance of aviation appalled even himself, was glad to do his old friend a favor...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...
World's first woman transport pilot was Ruth Nichols, who two years ago flew passengers regularly between New York and Boston. Not until last week, however, did any woman fly the U. S. airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
...Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...