Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislatively the storm is summed up in two bills now before Congress, one of which (Lee-McCarran Bill) would hand U. S. airlines over to the Interstate Commerce Commission while the other (Bland-Copeland Bill) would segregate over-ocean flying from domestic aviation and put it under the Maritime Commission, as Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy suggested in his famed report (TIME, Nov. 22). For Pan American, which escaped the visitation of the Black Committee in the airmail investigation, the ultimate decision is vital. Under the Lee-McCarran Bill, the I.C.C. would give preference in granting certificates for overseas air service...
...other hand, the Bland-Copeland Bill embodies Mr. Kennedy's ideas that transoceanic air lines should supplement the merchant marine. Indeed, he is not adverse to having ship owners go into aviation. His plan is to put overseas aviation on the same footing as shipping-even to the point of providing subsidies to build planes...
...Kalgan, South Chahar's "complete independence" from China was declared by "100 influential persons," headed by bland, pigtailed, 36-year-old Prince Te, a pro-Japanese Mongolian, long head of the "Inner Mongolia for Inner Mongolians" movement (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933, et seq.). It was Prince Te with his Mongolian levies who helped the Japanese to take Kalgan. The highest position in Japan's latest puppet state was to be his reward...
...body packed with lawyers, nothing is more fun than a brisk game of splitting verbal hairs. One of the first to take up Senator Borah's challenge was Arizona's bland Senator Ashurst, who attempted to obliterate the Borah argument by a reductio ad absurdum which resulted in dialog that sounded like the Mad Hatter's tea party...
This description of Ever Since Eve, published by William Randolph Hearst's New York Mirror the day after the picture's Manhattan premiere last week, was written by the Mirror's able cinema critic, Bland Johaneson. Since Hearst readers have long been accustomed to such eulogies of Cinemactress Davies' efforts on the screen, the fact that Ever Since Eve, far from being a high spot in the season's light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which...