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...Congress awoke to the need of air defense, appropriated nearly a quarter of a billion dollars for Army and Navy programs; President Coolidge appointed F. Trubee Davison and Edward P. Warner...
...MacCracken is young at 37. He has the same pioneering blood zooming through his arteries as have the youthful Air Secretaries Davison and Warner. With these three men in Washington, U. S. aviation is expected to emerge from the blimp era. Secretary MacCracken is a Chicagoan by birth, education, residence. The Uni versity of Chicago taught him letters and law. In the Army he taught flying at Houston and Waco, Texas. After the War he returned home, practiced law, be came Secretary of the American Bar Association. His specialty is aeronautic law. He helped formulate the Air Commerce Act, recent...
...hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first official act; appointed two new brigadier generals for the air service...
...have been built. There are to be in the service 1,650 regular flying officers, 550 reserve officers, and 15,000 enlisted men, ($89,000,000 had previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously the President nominated and the Senate ap proved Edward P. Warner and Frederick Trubee Davison as Assist ant Secretaries of the Navy and Army, respectively, to direct aviation. Edward P. Warner, skilled aero-engineer and aerodynamicist, young enthusiast, has been professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also conducted a post-graduate course for army and navy officers. Said the New York Times...
...financial compeer, John Davison Rockefeller Sr., was 87 years old last week...