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...full school of Aeronautics with help of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Therefore it considered itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute for next autumn. University of Southern California's similar decision seemed a murmur from across the continent...
...before heading for Tokyo, 6,880 mi. away. Hearty Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee, President of the International Advertising Association there in convention, got to a microphone and said: "We greet the Graf Zeppelin as ambassador of good will to the entire world." The ship proceeded quietly over Danzig, Koenigsberg, the onetime Eastern War Front, into Russia...
...newspapers on January 30, stating that he was "distinctly and definitely opposed to any representative of our newspapers or news services receiving any decorations or honorarium from any foreign government, except for patriotic service rendered America's allies in time of war." Last week, Moses Koenigsberg, president of the International News Service, Inc., and other Hearst syndicates, was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France at the Manhattan home of Jeweler Pierre Cartier, forthwith resigned all his offices with Mr. Hearst. It is believed his salary had been $75,000 per annum. William Franklin Knox...
...Immanuel Kant himself walking meticulously under the lindens at Koenigsberg could have been at greater pains than Count Keyserling to express in dry, recondite terms of utterly accurate cognition the following thoughts...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...