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...Miami Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, accompanied by Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...
Government officials who want to know what the U. S. Press is saying about their little world generally have had a surprisingly hard time. Hiring a clipping agency is expensive. Few departments enjoy the services of a paper-clipper like little Theodore Gilman Bilbo, onetime Governor of Mississippi, who last summer got a $6,000 a year job "assembling current information for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration" (TIME, July 3). In full swing last week was a Federal organization designed to correct this situation-the Division of Press Intelligence, which publishes a daily Press Intelligence Bulletin of 60 or more mimeographed...
...gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental mediocrity...
Largest item of the program is a $1,000,000 seaplane airbase on Miami's shore. Last week Fred Howland, Inc. of Miami was awarded the master contract for the terminal building. The base will provide for the simultaneous arrival of four of Pan American's huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been...