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Horrified at the death of New Mexico's Bronson Cutting in an airplane crash (TIME, May 13, 1935), the Senate started an investigation of the Bureau of Air Commerce, heard its aids to flight safety called "dangerously inadequate" by many an authority (TIME, Feb. 24 et seg.). The best rebuttal of the Bureau was a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 transport pilots. Last week, a subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee disregarded this defense, held the Bureau negligent in the Cutting crash, recommended a drastic overhaul of Bureau personnel...
Shocked when New Mexico's Bronson Cutting died in an airplane crash in Missouri, the Senate two months ago made the Federal Bureau of Air Commerce squirm by conducting an investigation during which it was charged that the Bureau's aids to flight were "dangerously inadequate" (TIME. Feb. 24). Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce delivered its rebuttal, a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 U. S. transport pilots...
Prompted by the death last year in a TWAirwreck of Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13 et seq.), the Senate inquiry came out into the open last week for the first time after eight months of special investigation. Empowered only to make recommendations to the Senate, the committee, chairmanned by Senator Copeland, called many an aviation bigwig, scheduled four days to hear their testimony. Excerpts...
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...Groton celebrated its 25th anniversary. Among such alumni as Joseph Clark Grew, Bronson Cutting, Robert Rutherford McCormick, Payne Whitney, George & Richard Whitney, W. Averell Harriman, Warren Delano Robbins, Ellery Sedgwick and Percy Haughton, the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector?" Last year the school was 50 years old. Its alumni had grown to include Arthur Train, Sumner Welles, E. Roland Harriman, F. Trubee Davison, Dean Acheson, Junius S. & Henry S. Morgan, Oliver LaFarge. Again the favorite subject of speculation was "who will succeed the Rector...