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...Cord in Detroit Sirs...
Startling error of omission in your airmail map (TIME, April 23, p. 24) is "the "Before Cancellation and After" route of American Airways from Buffalo, across Canadian soil, through Detroit and into Chicago. Cartographer and reporter both failed to delineate accurately any but the Newark-Buffalo portion of Mr. Cord's Newark-Chicago ''Valley Route." . . . The route is too important to omit. With its inauguration May 3, 1933, Mr. Cord's American Airways became the first transportation company to put geographically off-line Detroit on a direct New York-Chicago trunk line. How important this...
...holding umbrellas, sat on chairs set on boards to keep them from sinking into the muddy turf of West Potomac Park. The central figure of the gathering was enveloped in a soggy shroud of white canvas. A little boy, David Hargreaves, tugged desperately at a red, white and blue cord but the shroud refused to come away. Two husky policemen finally seized the heavy canvas, dragged it off by main force to reveal the face and figure of the little boy's grandfather - William Jennings Bryan, posed in bronze as if about to speak to the drenched gathering below...
...found on the list. Democrat Joseph Tumulty and the wife of Democrat Jouett Shouse made small headlines as silver owners but neither the onetime secretary to Woodrow Wilson nor the wife of the onetime party manager could be called insiders with the silver bloc. Notable catches were Errett Lobban Cord, member of the Committee for the Nation, owning 1,651,000 oz.; Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., son of another member, owning 300,000 oz.; Amy Collins, treasurer of the Radio League of the Little Flower, mouthpiece for ardent Silverite Father Coughlin, 500,000 oz.; A. Atwater Kent, radio tycoon...
...Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Sillirrmn Evans, whose name has frequently been linked with Errett Lobban Cord's because of his onetime position as vice president of American Airways, resigned last week to become vice president of Maryland Casualty...