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Arriving in New York yesterday morning aboard the Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper, President Conant took the first train to Boston with his secretary, A. Calvert Smith...
Returning from his eight week scientific mission to England, President James Bryant Conant '14 will arrive in New York at 10 o'clock this morning via transatlantic Clipper, the United Press reported last night...
President Conant is expected to return here today with his secretary, A. Calvert Smith '14, who went to New York to meet the Clipper. Instead of returning here, he may perhaps go straight to Washington to report to President Roosevelt, members of President Conant's secretarial staff said yesterday...
...Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British forces in East Asia, arrived for military conference with boot-tough U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, chief of the Asiatic Fleet; elegant General Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army; and High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre. On a Pacific Clipper, Manila-bound over the Midway-Wake-Guam steppingstone islands, flew Dr. E. N. van Kleffens, The Netherlands' Foreign Minister, to confer on the defense of the East Indies...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...