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...rostrum as presiding officer sat Montana's white-mopped John E. Erickson, 71, who stands 6 ft. 3 in. in stocking feet. Thrice elected Governor of Montana, Democrat Erickson resigned that job year ago last March. Few minutes after his resignation, his lieutenant governor appointed him to the Senate seat of the late Senator Walsh. Now Senator Erickson, elbow on desk, cheek upon hand, appeared not to hear the request of the Senator from Michigan...
...Senator from Michigan wishes to be recognized." Senator Erickson stirred slowly. His eyes blinked open. Finally awake from a good sound nap he announced: "The Senator from Michigan!" Thus last week the Senate proceeded with its task of bringing the Administration's legislative program for 1934 to speedy conclusion.* The President who once set May 1 for the adjournment of Congress, then May 15, was urgently hopeful of sending Congress home by the first week in June...
Nobody was greatly pleased by the Administration's latest airmail plans unless it was the small independent operators who thought they saw their chance to get into the field. Democratic Senators O'Mahoney, Logan, McGill and Erickson decried it. Airline operators, rumbling concerted protest, argued that lines not now engaged in air transport could not get ready to carry mail 45 days hence. Most vociferous was President Richard W. Robbins of Transcontinental & Western Air ("The Lindbergh Line"). Using such words as "insane," "crazy quilt," "ghastly blunder," "gorgeous comedy of public error," Mr. Robbins described last week...
Belmont Hill: Emerson, r.e.; Brooks, r.t.; Erickson, Vaughan, r.g.; Carstein, H., c.; Carstein, L., l.g.; Ellis, l.t.; Wheeler, l.e.; Gilpatrick, q.b.; Hicks, Mereer, h.b.; Emerson, f.b. Touchdowns--Parketie 4, Roberts 1. Points after touchdowns Roberts 2 by dropkick. Pass, Parkette to Salls...
...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...