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Director Vidal's two closest competitors became his first aides. Big-framed Major J. Carroll Cone, in charge of air regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided...
...pound: Lamb (B) defeated Goldsmith (T). 125-pound: Curtin (B) defeated Bradford (T). 135-pound: Ward (B) defeated Wetherwill (T). 145-pound: Carey (T) knocked out Cone (B). 155-pound; McGoodwin defeated Gaughan. 165-pound: Lawrence defeated Lefthes. 175-pound: Smith defeated Collins. Heavyweight; Simmons knocked out Jewett...
Seven Seniors, led by Captain Marshall A. Lamb '34, of the 125-pound class, again turned out for borths on the team: Thomas J. Curtin, 115 pounds; Arthur B. Sullivan, 135 pounds; Abraham Cone, 145 pounds; Philip W. A. Hines, 155 pounds; Richard Lawrence, 165 pounds; and Bradford Simmons, of the heavyweight class...
...Mitchell who admittedly knows nothing about aviation. Sooner or later the Aeronautics Branch had to have a head man, and no appointive job at the Capital was subject to fiercer competition. Leading candidates were Rex Martin, Wartime flyer, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game he got directly to Presi dent Roosevelt, impressed him with his knowledge...
...will probably also direct the Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection, the Coast & Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Bureau, possibly the U. S. Shipping Board.) Eugene L. Vidd, whose beauteous, dark-haired wife is daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development. Rex Martin, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller, is new director of airways; John H. Geisse of Madison, Wis. is supervising aeronautics inspector. Old-time Mail Pilot James Clark Edgerton was appointed Mr. Mitchell's executive assistant for aeronautics...