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...July, 1931 Hugh Herndon Jr., youthful Manhattan socialite, and Clyde Edward Pangborn, hard-bitten barnstormer, took off from New York City for a speed flight around the world. They finished it in October, following a series of misadventures in Japan where they were arrested for traversing forbidden military territory. They distinguished themselves as the first flyers to cross the Pacific nonstop, a feat which has not been duplicated. Soon after their return Pilot Pangborn broke into print with a grievance against his partner, alleging that Herndon had forced him into a disadvantageous contract shortly before the takeoff, when Pangborn...
...make our position perfectly clear. Misunderstandings often wreck tempers. The American attitude toward liquor is curious; it is wanted because it is forbidden. What New York needs is more golf courses. . . . Even more than international amity and the friendship of the English-speaking nations we should like to stress youth. . . . Games are very fine. And yet this is called the mechanical...
Cause of the uproar and indignation was comparatively trivial. On May 2 matured a $239,197,000 issue of 2% Treasury certificates, "payable in U. S. gold coin of the present standard of value'' But President Roosevelt had forbidden all payments in gold on all obligations, public or private. U. S. certificate-holders got paper dollars still nominally worth 100? while foreigners were asked to take paper dollars worth only 84? in their currency. The President's embargo likewise prevented gold exports to meet the June 15 Liberty Loan interest payments abroad, despite the "gold clause...
...Last week's law had one of its roots in the famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick O'Brien, now Mayor of New York. Charlotte Pixel called 125 witnesses to swear...
...with that solemn diffidence becoming to solitary interpretations of Olympian dicta, that one ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion...