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...marathons there are still some records hung so high and in such out-of-the-way places that few will care to shoot at them. Fortnight ago English airmen flew over Mt. Everest (TIME, April 10). Not so publicized or so spectacular but every bit as jaunty was Aime Felix Tschiffely's recent (1925-27) 10,000-mile horseback ride from Buenos Aires to Washington...
Official announcement of the appointment of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne professor of Administrative Law, as Solicitor-General of the United States, is expected in the next few weeks, it was learned here yesterday. According to reliable sources, President Roosevelt has definitely slated Frankfurter for the post and will announce the choice before the Supreme Court adjourns...
...Daughters of the American Revolution have poured the vials of their colonial malice on the head of Professor Felix Frankfurter, urging with factious vehemence that he be excluded from any Federal appointment. The crusade will take the form of letters to President Roosevelt, carefully warning him of Professor Frankfurter's liberalism, of the dangerous movements to which he has ventured to lend the weight of his influence in the past, of his general radicalism and undesirability...
...speech to Smith College students at Northampton, Mass., Felix Frankfurter, Harvard Law School's famed Liberal, said: "No body of men in the United States works harder than the Senate, or with more intelligence. . . . Bear in mind that what you read is not what Congress does but what it says. You seldom find the quiet, modest, statistical speeches of the gentleman who will be the new Secretary of State, Senator Hull. He has made many such speeches. But let Huey Long get off some stuff and that is front-page material...
Washington Irving Moss, president of New Orleans' receivershipped Union Indemnity Co. (TIME, Jan. 16), resigned as board chairman of Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. Succeeded by his old associate, Felix P. Vaccaro, he will continue as a vice president "to devote myself whole heartedly to the ... company." Reason: "As president of Union Indemnity ... I have been subjected to some unfriendly criticism, which, no matter how unjustified, might reflect itself disadvantageously upon Standard Fruit...