Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inauguration of Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour as tenth president of Brown University...
Slightly outplayed by a Princeton team that was guilty of stupid penalties and unable to kick goals after touchdowns, Brown got better as it grew wearier and edged out the game...
Frank were the operators in opening their ledgers, potent were their pleas. Mr. Glover, acting for Mr. Brown, was not obdurate. A compromise on rates seemed certain to result...
...compromise may, however, entail the wiping out of some air mail routes. Mr. Brown himself indicated that last week. Said he to the Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...
That prognosis angered the operators. Cried one: "Mr. Brown does not seem to realize that, although it is true that transportation has always followed migration, which in this country has always been from east to west, the airplane is now opening up trade routes north and south. . . . The Post Office Department has never operated at a profit. Why should aviation transportation be discriminated against-reducing an inevitable deficit?" The fact that Mr. Brown's Toledo law firm, Brown, Hahn & Sanger, has represented certain railroads, made some of the airmen suspect, in their bitterness, that Mr. Brown was consciously...