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...place of the Wright Whirlwinds customarily installed. Ford announced that Diesels would be optional equipment in future. So did Stinson Aircraft Corp. Chief virtues of the engine, which has been developed in the U. S. with considerable secrecy by Packard Motors Co.: low cost of fuel, reduction of fire hazard, elimination of ignition, and of radio interference. Capt. L. M. Woolson last month flew a Diesel-powered Stinson from Detroit to Miami, approximately 1,200 miles, on $8.50 worth of fuel. Of prime importance to airplane builders is the reduction of Diesel engine weights to compare with gasoline engines...
James De Wolf Perry, 58, of Providence, R. I., was born in Germantown, Pa., son of a rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home...
When the War began she came to the U. S. to be Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's suffraget aid. While doing that she learned of Margaret Sanger's trouble with the police over birth control advocacy. Kitty Marion offered to busk the promising but innocuous Birth Control Review at Manhattan's busiest corners. She has been doing that for the past 13 years...
...game of shifting committee places for Republican Senators threatened to become rougher than child's play. Puss La Follette had the solid support of the G. O. Progressives. Regular Republican Senators were ready to shove Puss Goff from one corner to the other at any hazard. Democrats were spoiling to join the scramble on the Senate floor. In the meantime all other committee assignments were held in abeyance...
...there are two sides to every question. Some people just are not good at climbing gates", and even for those who are, a row of iron spikes ten feet above the ground offers a considerable mental hazard at nine o'clock at night. By three the risk becomes positively physical...