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Almost as difficult as the task of finding out who kidnapped Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. has been the subsequent task of finding out who was responsible for finding Bruno Richard Hauptmann. In 1932, New Jersey posted a reward of $25,000 for the capture of the kidnapper. Ever since Hauptmann was executed two years ago the State has been trying to decide who earned it. This week in Trenton, Governor Harold G. Hoffman announced ten recipients...
...nominations for directors of the Harvard Fund Council are Philip W., Wrenn '94, Boston, finance; Christian H. Haberkorn, Jr., '12, Detroit, finance; Nevil Ford '13, New York, finance; Clay Judson '14, Chicago, law; Augustus Thorndike, Jr., 19, Boston, medicine; Francis Kernan, Jr., '24, New York, finance; John E. Toulmin '25, Boston, finance; and Alexander J. Cassatt '27, Philadelphia, finance...
Names. The embattled committeemen and committeewomen sought to solve their problem soothingly with Names. Those bruited outside the meeting, ranging in age and political experience from 35-year-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh to Illinois' 76-year-old ex-Governor Frank Orren Lowden, were so numerous that the committee decided to pick some 150 instead of 100 philosophers...
...likely successor to Director Fred Dow Fagg Jr., of the potent Bureau of Air Commerce-slated to retire next June -West Virginia's Congressman Jennings Randolph last week laid before President Roosevelt the name of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Since Colonel Lindbergh is obviously not hounding Congressman Randolph for political patronage, the suggestion seemed to have been prompted by nothing more than a Congressman's normal appetite for publicity-except for two things: 1) Mr. Randolph's letters dwelt at length on the idea that the U. S. "must continue its world leadership" in transoceanic aviation...
...newsmaker, aviation is No. 1 U. S. industry. Whether a planeful of prominent people smacks a mountain or Charles Augustus Lindbergh asks for bids for huge airliners, aviation crashes the front pages. This obscures in investors' minds the fact that as business the aviation industry is small potatoes. Last week a small, handsomely-printed volume summarized neatly and ably the striking characteristics of this diminutive industry. Its author was William Barclay Harding, who prepared it for the clients of his firm, the Wall Street house of Chas. D. Barney & Co.* Wall Street houses constantly prepare brochures...