Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every two years for the last three decades, persons have been transformed into Personages or continued as the latter by the meticulous editorial staff of Albert Nelson Marquis of Chicago, publisher of Who's Who in America. Last week the 16th edition of Who's Who issued from the bindery into the clutches of newshawks and actuaries who quickly examined it for alterations and statistics. Simplest news facts: Since 1928, 3,498 names have been added, 2,559 dropped for death and other reasons, leaving a total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable...
...features of General Manager Cliff Henderson's program went far to heighten public interest: the engagement of European crack airmen for an acrobatic "Olym-piad"; the revival of free-for-all speed racing in the Thompson Trophy Race. The latter event promised to resolve into a battle between Travelair Mystery S's, flown by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks and Lieut. Jimmy H. Doolittle, and the Marine Corps entry, a special Curtiss Hawk with Conqueror motor, piloted by Capt. Arthur H. Page, winner of the Curtiss Marine Trophy Race...
When these essays were recently published in England, J. B. S. Haldane, who had previously written on the subject, recognized 44 passages as his own, rebuked the Earl (TIME, June 2). The latter admitted that there was some truth in the comment, sales jumped, and now the book appears in the U. S., a brain-child of truly distinguished parentage...
...forced to invent switches, cables, fuses, even the friction tape for splices. So sincere, so acquisitive is the admiration of Author Ford for his great & good old friend that he has transplanted to Dearborn the entire early laboratory plants of Fort Myers, Fla. and Menlo Park, N. J., the latter complete to the local boarding house, to teach "boys and girls something of the spirit which made this country." There is a Fordian enthusiasm for that spirit evident throughout the book, which is as simple as the author's automobile, and with the aid of Publicist Samuel Crowther made...
Personally attractive for his 41 years, virile, an orator comparable to Kerensky, Trotzky or Mussolini, Demagog Hitler soon reclaimed his old position. To his cause have flocked many an adoring Jungfraulein and hot-blooded youngster. The latter he has organized into clean-up gangs called "storm squads," comparable to the Communist "Red Front Squads." So closely do the Fascist tenets resemble those of Communism that many of his disciples are onetime Communists, grown weary of their cabal's inactivity...