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...infantry captain in World War I, began his postwar career as a $15-a-week salesman, rose in eight years to assistant manager of all Montgomery Ward plants. At 33, he joined the $150 million Johns-Manville Corp., two years later became its president; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach...
...team, which left for Miami by air last night, has already defeated Cornell, last year's National Intercollegiate Champions. But Miami has been drilling regularly outdoors at Delray Beach and Coral Gables, while the Crimson has had to confine its activities to indoor work in New York and the Cage here...
...bedrock of Florida's winter trade was bigger and sounder than ever. A bus-line authority said that trying to count the passengers was like counting the snowflakes that fell in Manhattan last week. The middleaged, the old, the thrifty young thronged ancient, calm St. Augustine, Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach on the Atlantic Coast. St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico did its usual huge and placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings of cautious baseball...
After their campaign labors, the following politicians made or planned the following moves: Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James...
Helicopteroid. Under each wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...