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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, ascetic Opposition pillar of British morality, Viscount Cecil, rebutted: "I suggest that the Four Power Conference was to enable Hitler to get out of his [Godesberg] position with the least loss of reputation...
Last week the CAA, in its first big airport decision, gave its nod to the Gravelly Point site, immediately set about securing a $4,000,000 PWA appropriation, cooperation of the Army Engineering Corps and WPA labor to get the new Washington National Airport under way. A mile further downriver than the present field, the site lies three and a half miles from the centre of the capital, ten minutes away via the Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway. Immediate plans call for a 750-acre field, 500 acres to be "made" with fill dredged from the river bottom and graded...
...learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling up flying hours and getting a comprehensive view of private flying such as few short-hop and Sunday fliers get. Sometimes selling several ships a month, but more often finding territories soured on flying because of local accidents, he finally quit and started a flying school. Then this year, with 2,250 flying hours...
...natural wealth, and a slipknot of his own devising. Philadelphia reporters liked to drop in and chat with him on his birthdays, listen to him play his ancient reed organ. They went around to the little house in North 18th Street one day last week, but not to get a birthday story. They came to ask about the funeral arrangements...
...pickets lounged about the rectory lawn. They had been lounging there for six weeks, in defiance of their Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens, who had ordered their priest of the past 13 years, Father Simon Borkowski, transferred to a seminary in Wisconsin (TIME, Sept. 5). Professing to be unable to get past the restraining pickets, Father Simon remained in his rectory. Then, one day last week, a party of 60 Catholics, some local and some from nearby towns, drove up to St. Barbara's to spring the trap. They man-handled the pickets out of the way, broke open...