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...Wall Street), longtime champion of railroad consolidation; in East Edgecombe, Me. Professor of political economy at Harvard from 1901 to 1933, he saw most of the financial reforms he urged finally adopted. When he attacked corporate practices in a magazine article in 1926, stock prices promptly took a dive, and Ripley became widely known as "The Professor Who Jarred Wall Street...
...Navy's Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. two white-faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker...
...defending his high dive, Clark had a hard time convincing the judges that his flips were superior to those of Sammy Lee, a gum-chewing Korean representing Occidental College. Lee finished with 105 points to Clark...
...Lady was up to. Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers...
Last April, Wing Commander Straight got the Military Cross for valor at Dunkirk. Last week he led his squadron of Hurricane fighters in an attack on Nazi Channel shipping. As he suddenly pulled out of a dive, his motor streaming smoke, he radioed: "I have been hit and am going to force-land in France. . . . Squadron to return to its base." He was last seen gliding toward the Nazi shore...