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Connally was regularly re-elected to the House until 1928, when he decided to try for the Senate. He mounted a campaign that put him foursquare against the Ku Klux Klan and in favor of Al Smith for President. Neither position was popular in Texas, but he won anyway. In the Senate, Connally backed most of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, but he refused to vote for the National Industrial Recovery Act, battled fiercely against FDR's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. In 1938 Connally led a filibuster to defeat an antilynching bill, claimed...
Monday, October 28 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The career of Al Jolson...
...characteristics-U.S. flying experience, French cooking, British reliability. Since the majority of transatlantic customers are American, most of the foreign lines try to appeal to their old-country loyalties. With two of the biggest blocs to draw on, Ireland's Aer Lingus and Israel's El Al are reaping an ethnic harvest. Once the two lines shared an Idlewild airport terminal that was fondly known as "Abie's Irish Airline," but booming business has forced them into separate quarters...
Much the same appeal to sentiment is fostered by Israel's government-controlled El Al (Hebrew for "to the sky"). On El Al's 22 weekly trips over the 5,800 miles from New York to Tel Aviv, the passenger lists are 80% Jewish. El Al corners the groups with what it calls a "sales mating call." The rabbinically supervised menu includes gefilte fish and bagels and lox; there are also potato pancakes for Hanukkah and matzo-ball soup for Passover. The airline enjoys a 55.9% load factor, last year made a $200,000 profit; this...
Orthodox Lunches. For El Al, unlike Aer Lingus, the ethnic approach creates problems as well as customers. Obeying Jewish law, El Al loses 62 flying days annually by not operating in or out of Tel Aviv's Lod Airport on the Sabbath and religious holidays. To meet orthodox dietary prohibitions, flights are scheduled so that Jewish passengers will not be stranded at mealtime in such nonkosher cities as Teheran and Athens. And at a cargo weight loss of 600 Ibs. each trip, El Al's jets carry extra pots and double sets of plates for meat and dairy...