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...Washington, Dr. Eckener received the medal of the National Geographic Society, "for his work in furthering the progress of airships, and to commemorate the first around-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin." In 42 years, only ten men before Eckener were awarded this medal: Peary, Amundsen, Shackleton, Bartlett, Goethals, Stefansson, Gilbert, Bennett, Lindbergh, Byrd...
Born in Tenafly, N. J., in 1881, Judge Thacher went to Taft School, was graduated from Yale in 1904, from the Yale Law School in 1906. In 1907 he was ap pointed Assistant U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan. He joined his father's firm, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of which Ambassador Dwight Whitney Mor row was once a member. He had many large corporations among his clients, de fended the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1915 when they were charged with trying to monopolize New England commerce, was attorney for the "Terra Cotta Trust...
...hear the case of Federal Trade Commission v. Electric Bond & Share. Chairman Norris of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who led the attack on Chief Justice Hughes, announced that his committee would investigate the Thacher appointment in the light of information that, as a onetime member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, he had been an "attorney for Electric Bond & Share...
...President Hoover last week reappointed Joseph Bartlett Eastman to the lately active Interstate Commerce Commission (see p. 11) to the great disgruntlement of reactionary rail men. Also appointed to the I. C. C. was Robert M. Jones of Tennessee...
...Pilots. Martin Jensen, second prize Dole Pacific flyer, and Bartlett Stephens, acting superintendent of the San Francisco Municipal Airport, started a short hop at San Francisco. Down the runway roared their plane. She crow hopped along, got up in the air, fell off on a wing. Jensen, scared, hauled her back to level. He remarked gently on his friend's handling of the ship. Stephens, aggrieved, had been thinking the same thing. Each had thought the other was piloting...