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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal on her first visit to Canada. A Canadian war pilot, Captain Roy Brown, now head of Canada's General Airways, was officially credited with shooting down Ace von Richthofen. Last week Baroness von Richthofen asserted that her son had been downed by Australian artillery fire as he flew low in a dogfight with Captain Brown...
First New Deal act to provoke widespread U. S. criticism was the abrupt cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled...
Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing...
...Elmira deal worried the 1,700 workers in the Syracuse factory, which makes Remington portable typewriters. Rumors flew that the company planned to close down in Syracuse, move the portable division to Elmira. Union leaders wrote to President Rand, got no answer for a month. Then Mr. Rand's secretary answered that no plans had been made for Elmira...