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Organizer. Dominant in the formation of T. A. T., Inc., were General William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc. General Atterbury had noted that most railroads had failed to cooperate effectively with motorbus lines and he did not want the same thing to happen with airlines. For four years, he planned T. A. T., Inc., with Mr. Keys and executives of the Santa Fe Railroad, Wright Aeronautical Corp., National Air Transport, Inc. (carriers of U. S. mail), and others. "The time is ripe . . .," said General Atterbury last week...
...same time, the stocks of Wright Aeronautical Corp. and of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., were soaring on the New York Stock Exchange. A contributing factor was that both President Clement...
Curtiss, since its reorganization in 1923 under the leadership of Clement Melville Keys, has become a miniature General Motors of the air-makers of the complete plane (fuselage, engine propeller, accessories). Founder Glenn Curtiss, no longer with the firm, is in the real estate business in Florida. Last week, Curtiss stock reached a new high of $192.75 and closed at $145. On the day-before-Lindbergh, it was easily obtainable...
...President Coolidge received the first "buddy poppy," inaugurating the pre-Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother...
...thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary for War in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet. The seventh, their Chairman, the Great Liberal, Sir John Simon, several times a cabinet minister, will sacrifice for each twelvemonth that he neglects his legal practice not less than...