Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for batting practice Coach Mitchell pared down his hurlers to the number of 13 late last week. Those retained are : Proctor H. Avon '37, Harold M. Curtiss, Jr. '39, Harold N. Edinberg '39, Francis F. Foley '39, Charles G. Houghton, Jr. '39, Edmund F. Ingalls '38, Richard M. Klein '39, William Lee, Jr. '38, John R. Mahoney '37, Donald Prouty '39, Philip N. Rose '38, Royall Victor '37, and Richard MacC, Walsh...
Dick Walsh, veteran, and Slim Curtiss, 1939 starter, are in the ranks of the pitchers turning out regularly. Also among these are Royall Victor '37, who has been up and down with the Varsity and Junior Varsity for two years, Proctor H. Avon '37, Junior Varsity mainstay last year, and John R. Mahoney '37, also of the 1936 Seconds...
Second pair of pitchers whom Mitchell will be watching are Harold M. Curtiss '39 and Donald Prouty '39. The former, with a battling sidearm delivery, and the latter a relief hurler, formed a nine inning combination on last year's undefeated Freshman team...
...when a man named Swan crashed his balloon on a Mr. Guille's farm in New York State. Crowds rushed in, spoiled Guille's flowers and the court ordered Swan to pay damages. In 1930, Frederick & Raymond Swetland tried to enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes...
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...