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...years a lithe, quick-moving, tousle-headed U. S. citizen has been nosing around Europe's airways, his half-hostile eyes alert to see every new aviation development. Anxious to honor the world's most famous flyer, foreign governments and companies withheld little from Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, reserve Army flyer and unsalaried technical adviser of Pan American Airways. Returning fortnight ago "for Christmas," Colonel Lindbergh landed with probably more complete information of Europe's air plans, particularly those of Imperial Airways, than any individual on this side of the Atlantic. Last week, after three days...
...anyone with a sincere desire to keep out of the limelight, the advisability of making a solo flight from the U. S. to Europe is open to question. Whether, having made the first non-stop solo flight from the U. S. to Europe in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh thereby justified the U. S. press in considering that his private life was public property is open to question also. Last week, the sad and puzzling problem of the No. 1 U. S. hero's relation to the No. 1 U. S. institution of hero-worship was raised once more when...
Died. Theodore Augustus Walters, 61, Assistant Secretary of the Interior since 1933; of pneumonia; in Washington...
Franklin Roosevelt's executive actions last week consisted mainly of a letter to the Federal Trade Commission's Chairman William Augustus Ayres, requesting the Commission to investigate a "marked increase in the cost of living . . . attributable, in part, to monopolistic practices and other unwholesome methods of competition." The Commission promptly promised to deliver to the President "as early as practicable" a report which observers guessed would be part of the groundwork for new anti-trust legislation in Congress' regular session this winter...
...AUGUSTUS - John Buchan - Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Attempt, carefully collated, well-considered, sympathetically written by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, to recreate what the creator of the "Augustan Peace" must have been like. Heavyish going, however, for all but the more serious readers...