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...delegation of 17 officers and directors of the National Air Transport, Inc., headed by Howard E. Coffin, President of that com- pany, called on Mr. Coolidge to present a plan for a commercial aviation service from New York City to Chicago and Dallas...
...recommending such an investigation by outsiders. President Coolidge promptly acted on the suggestion. He named a board of nine: Major General James G. Harbord, retired, President of the Radio Corporation of America; Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, retired; Dwight W. Morrow, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; Howard E. Coffin, consulting engineer, aeronautics expert; Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, formerly in the Air Service, now a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee; Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, of the House Naval Affairs Committee; Representative James S. Parker of N. Y., Chairman of the House Committee on Interstate Commerce; Judge Arthur...
...Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...Wortley, England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
They carried his coffin out into the street, took it through Washington and across the Potomac. It was a rainy, chilly day and thousands shivered...