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Having cogitated SEC's friendly criticism and suggestions, the Council's president, able, chubby J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., requested the Secretary of State and SEChairman to appoint a two-man "Board of Visitors" to descend upon the Council ''from time to time with or without notice." For his man. Secretary of State Hull last week designated Herbert Feis, State Department adviser on international economic affairs, and SEChairman James McCauley Landis named the SEChairman-presumably Commissioner William O. Douglas, who is slated to succeed Mr. Landis when that New Dealer retires next September to take...
...which the lifting power would be provided not by one big balloon but a cluster of small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof...
...this scene St. Nicholas parishioners can look on the other wall, opposite the Crucifixion. Under a black, apocalyptic sky, a young miner lies on ground covered with coal rubble. Weeping women in violet robes at his head and feet avert their eyes as a group of men with picks descend into a smoky middle background. A headline of the Croatian newspaper on which the dead miner is sprawled reads: "The Immigrant Mother Raises Her Sons for American Industry...
...start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that its pilots were merely waving at the balloonists, who misunderstood the gesture as an order to descend. Germany retorted that the pilots waved pistols. At week's end the International Aeronautic Federation was still pondering the squabble, had not announced a winner...
...owns nearly a billion dollars" were favorably disposed toward a U. S. dictatorship (TIME. May 17). Instead of being pleased by this buttressing of his opinion, the Senator from Idaho exploded: "I haven't read Professor Dodd's statement. ... I do not propose to descend to the level of reading such irresponsible scandalmongers. I regard him as a disgrace to his country. I have an idea his supposed dictatorship is the figment of a disturbed mind...