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...lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that Mr. Hoover was going to appoint Col. Lindbergh to his sub-cabinet in charge of civil aeronautics. Mr. Hoover promptly changed the subject of conversation...
...possibility that Harvard might adopt the policy of having their coaches appoint captains before each game is very slight in the opinion of William J. Bingham '16 Director of Athletics of the University...
...shall not appoint your successor," said President Masaryk to Dr. Svehla, "perhaps you may yet recover your health...
...father, Peter I, succeeded the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch in 1903, he had no expectation of reaching the throne ahead of his elder brother Crown Prince George. However, a distressing malady forced Prince George to renounce his right of succession in 1909, and a similar necessity obliged King Peter to appoint Prince Alexander regent on June...
...tables at Cambridge, Mass. The Dartmouth, trepidatious, threatened to give collegiate journalistic standing to Alton Kimball ("Al") Marsters, famed Dartmouth footballer. Marsters, Dartmouth interfraternity ping-pong champion, rates no golden key for activity on the college daily, but Editor Robert Rathbone Bottome said that, if necessary, he would appoint Marsters to his staff if the Crimson pingers ponged potently. The Crimson's men complained bitterly: "He's a ringer...