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...ball on their own 30 and after an exchange of kicks, Wells caught a punt at midfield, and led by excellent interference ran 50 yards for the first score. Wells placekicked the extra point. The Jayvees took the ball on their own 30 and following several unsuccessful attempts to dent the Varsity forward wall, gave it up as a bad job and punted short to their 40. Within scoring territory, the Varsity opened up with an aerial attack and Nazro snagged a Wells pass for 20 yards. Lane accounted for the second tally on a sweep from the 12-yard...
...Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game he got directly to Presi dent Roosevelt, impressed him with his knowledge and ability. Last week, reputedly at the President's insistence, "Gene" Vidal became civil aviation's head man in the newly created job of Director of Aeronautics. Airplane manufacturers and operators viewed the appointment of Director Vidal with mixed feelings...
...tracks, barely missing the head of a yardman and scaring him out of his wits. In a few minutes a crowd of thousands jammed the yards. "Get those cigarets away!" shouted Commander Settle, who had pulled the ripcord to empty the bag of hydrogen. Except for a dent in the gondola the balloon and instruments were intact. Sadly Commander Settle explained the fiasco: planning to hang at 5,000 ft. until dawn, he had pulled his gas escape valve. The valve stuck open. Then it was recalled that during the last-minute fanfare the valve had been opened & closed several...
President Roosevelt last week got a Glass in the Treasury. It was not Carter Glass, the peppery little Senator from Virginia who refused to enter the Cabinet because he could not get an advance pledge on "sound money." but his sister Marion Glass Banister whom the Presi dent appointed to be Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. For $5,600 per year Mrs. Banister will help U. S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian keep track of the Government's billions. As a glorified bookkeeper, she has no policy-making powers...
...sight, General Johnson called in both sides, ordered them to agree on a 32-hour week and like it. Labor promptly accepted. The shipbuilders were not brought around until General Johnson had threatened to recommend that the entire Navy program be executed in government yards. Then was Presi dent Roosevelt able to sign and promulgate NRA's second code in six weeks, providing for a 32-hour week in shipyards doing government work, 36 hours in others, with a 35?-to-45? minimum wage scale...