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MOSCOW--The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet tonight ratified the Soviet-Estonian pact of mutual assistance which was signed here last night...
...Calvin Coolidge's appointees were generally inefficient. In 1934, against the bitter lobbying of the Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer...
...public's fear of flight. To counteract the fear propaganda of Fannie Ward and other parents who do their broadcasting less publicly, United Air Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings. Various other winged characters teach Speedy and his sister air lore, give them unending confidence in air travel. Its object: to take advantage of the fact...
During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to "police" Estonia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Finally they faced an invasion of the Russian Reds. From a prison camp, into which the Germans had flung him, emerged one Konstantin Pats, just in time to help lead Estonian forces which drove off the Red Army invaders. Last week, determined Konstantin Pats, now Acting President of the Republic, celebrated at Tallinn Estonia's 20th birthday...
Under Pats the number of new Estonian farms carved out of the estates of former German aristocrats has now reached 60,000. Some 40,000 small Estonian farmers have risen from tenants to full ownership. Last week, two days after celebrating Estonia's 20th anniversary, Pats won, hands down, the first general election held under Estonia's new constitution...