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PEDLAR'S PROGRESS : THE LIFE OF BRONSON ALCOTT - Odell Shepard - Little, Brown...
Since then there have been eleven fatal crashes of scheduled passenger transports, first and most significant of which was that of a TWA Douglas at Atlanta, Mo. in which Senator Bronson Cutting was killed (TIME, May 13, 1935). This disaster evoked from the Senators surviving colleagues a torrent of denunciation against the airlines and an investigation which has continued 20 months...
...Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal's resignation, commented: "He is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear is that he is too amiable, that he is lacking in iron, positiveness and determination. . . ." Lately a series...
...ngerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan connected with...
...Christian, for the "George Chase Christian Memorial Scholarships" for students from Minnesota, preferably in the graduate schools 50,000.00 Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Clark 11,039.60 Ernest L. Conant '84, for the "Conant - Allison Scholarship" 25,000.00 Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Bayard James, and Marchesa Origo, for the "Bronson Cutting Harvard National Scholarships" in memory of Bronson Cutting '10, primarily for students from New Mexico or under certain conditions from Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma 125,000.00 John T. Davis '89 25,000.00 John Draper Gannett '37, Robert Tileston Gannett '15, Robert Tileston Gannett, 2d '39, Thomas Brattle Gannett...