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...every known precaution for Old Glory: A complete radio set, rubber raft, flares, much food for the flyers, even little metal mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...
...appearance on French soil, seriously doubted the wisdom of turning 15,000 Americans loose in a country where Americans had become distinctly unpopular. Was that unpopularity wholly erased -by the stabilization of the French franc, the debt negotiations, the visit of Heroes Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd...
...since you saw fit to call him "a large black fly in the ointment" [TIME, July 18] have you seen fit to mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement...
...President thought that the U. S. should honor the Chamberlin flight as impressively as the Lindbergh flight. He hoped it would be legally possible to confer the Distinguished Flying Cross on Mr. Chamberlin. (Mr. Chamberlin is a civilian but would be eligible to the Cross by joining either an army or navy reserve corps. So, presumably, would Mr. Levine...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, contradicting dark rumors that he bore Mr. Levine ill will, flew with Maurice Drouhin to London in the Levine-owned Columbia, to show the Frenchman its tricks and abilities. From London, Maurice Drouhin and the Columbia conveyed Mr. Levine back to Paris, where Mr. Levine rejoined his attorney and press agent...