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While Mr. Stephens enjoyed the dignity and $10,000 pay of a U. S. Senator, one of his former political opponents in Mississippi was glad to hold the lowly job of newspaper clipper in the AAA at a salary of $6,000. The paper clipper was ex-Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Before primary time arrived "The Man" rushed back to Mississippi, proposed a 27-point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert...
...Baltimore, Glenn Luther Martin's gigantic new Clipper No. 7, laid up for three months because of ice conditions in Chesapeake Bay, got off on a test flight with the biggest load (51,000 lb.) ever carried by a U. S.-built aircraft...
...Harvard" was originally the "New York," one of the finest and fastest passenger vessels then afloat, with the long, graceful lines and clipper bow usually seen on yachts of that period. To save confusion with the flag-ship "New York," its name had to be changed on entering naval service. The donation of the six-pounder caused it to be rechristened the "Harvard...
...South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first to launch a North Atlantic mail service with heavier-than-air craft will most likely be Great Britain's Imperial Airways...
...looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that the Senate Commerce Committee, on which sat Mississippi's junior Senator Hubert Durrett Stephens, was considering the appointment of Dr. Willard Thorp as an expert for the Department of Commerce, Clipper Bilbo pricked up his large ears. When he learned that Dr. Thorp had once registered as a Republican while at Amherst, he dropped his shears and paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about to give a $9,000 job to a "damn Yankee" Republican. Pulling...