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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honored. Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. Army Air Corps retired, now superintendent of Newark Airport; with the Distinguished Flying Cross. On Dec. 12, 1936, while flying over Long Island's Rockaway Beach, the engine of Aldworth's pursuit plane failed. At the cost of severe injuries to himself, he deliberately pancaked into the water to avoid endangering children on the beach...
...Ministers of Europe, the imminent likelihood of Soviet planes winging over the top of the world to the U. S. (TIME, May 31 et seq.), a development in air transport even more prodigious than Pan American's bridging of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935), revives the old bugaboo of Red Wings over Europe...
...nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
Farinacci's contribution was specially significant, for this "Overlord of the North" has long been entrusted to speak II Duce's mind. It was he who laid down the minimum terms for solving the Ethopian dispute, terms which led to the still born Hoare-Laval scheme (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935). It was he who last year reviled British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley for knuckling under to the police. It was he who roared loudest against the Coronation of King George and said of those Italians who wanted to go to London to see it: "We shall do everything...
...Passed without a roll call the bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make soil conservation payments direct to farmers instead of allocating the funds for administration by individual States after Dec. 31 as provided in the Soil Conservation Act. Sent it to the President...