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...therefor charge the ambulance committee with the collection of money under false pretenses, and respectfully request a prompt and complete probe by the student council or a committee thereof which should render an official report. Merwin K. Hart, jr. '40, Sidney Q. Curtiss...
Hurling sensational charges last night, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, and Sidney Q. Curtiss '40, in a letter to the editor of the CRIMSON, published on today's editorial page, claimed that the money contributed by Harvard students and faculty last year for an ambulance to be sent to the Loyalists in Spain, was never used for that purpose, but "was collected under false pretenses...
...Hart and Curtiss, frequent letter writers on political subjects, asked the Student Council to make a "prompt and complete probe" of the matter and render an official report. They base their claim that the money was "collected under false pretenses" upon a news dispatch printed in the New York "Herald-Tribune" of August which reported a parade and demonstration of trade unionists and radicals thru New York's Yorktown and Harlem districts, in which Governor Elmer A. Benson, Farm Laborite of Minnesota, made a speech favoring Mayor La Guardia's re-election...
...eight miles by road northeast of Grand Central Station (in whose shadow most commercial airlines have their midcity passenger terminals), across the East River and the new Tri-Borough Bridge. Although $2,358,000 went into the land, runways, hangars, seaplane ramps, beacons & facilities for servicing visiting planes when Curtiss-Wright built North Beach in 1929. only schools, private flyers and taxis patronized the field. No line made it a terminus. In 1934 the City of New York agreed to buy it for $1,500,000, leased the property in the meantime for $1 a year, wiped...
Spurred by Curtiss-Wright's success, Hamilton Standard last week revealed that it too has a full-feathering prop. Worked by hydraulic pressure, the Hamilton blade has been ordered in small quantities by United and American Airlines for twin-motored use, by Pan American for its vast four-motored Boeing Clippers now abuilding in Seattle...