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...failed to include the powerful shipping lobby that has obtained for its members millions upon millions of dollars under the guise of "mail contracts." Huge amounts are so paid in many cases for the alleged carriage of mails over steamship routes which could not possibly be utilized in the dispatch of anything but the bulkiest freight...
...Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated face. After they clambered back on board, Captain Fried abandoned the lifeboat, pointed his ship toward Manhattan, wrote a signed dispatch for the Associated Press...
Scott Co. which had furnished the Minneapolis Star and Erie Dispatch-Herald with three-color units capable of running at full speed; R. Hoe & Co. (TIME, May 2) which furnished the Seattle Times with two-color units; and Claybourn Co. which gave to the Pittsburgh Press what Mr. Wood promised the Chicago Tribune, only at half the speed...
...gold medal to the Indianapolis (Ind.) News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year...
...attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger." An alert deskman for the New York World-Telegram put 1 2 3 & 4 together and produced the following dispatch, purporting to come from Riga notorious (like Winsted, Conn, and Evanston, Ill.) as a source of outlandish stories...