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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stultz Drunk? After Wilmer Stultz was killed, a medical examination, ordered by the District Attorney of Nassau County, Long Island, disclosed sufficient alcohol in his brain to indicate that he was drunk at the time of his crash (TIME, July 8, 15). Last week a Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner, held an inquest. The autopsy evidence was not offered in evidence. Witnesses who were close to Stultz before his fatal flight said they did not consider him drunk then. So the Coroner's decision was that Stultz died of a broken neck while doing a "falling leaf...
Airvia's N. Y.-Boston Line. Airvia Transportation Co. last week began its long-planned seaplane service between New York and Boston with American Aeronautical Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes. Colonial Airways operates land planes between those cities. Airvia's first working planes are named the Roger Q. Williams and the Lewis A. Yancey, after the trans-Atlantic flyers (TIME, July 15), both members of the firm...
...informed of the new issue and first became aware of it when he read an advertisement in the Times wherein his own name was used conspicuously. Although he admitted last week that there was nothing illegal about such a procedure, Tycoon St. Davids was grievously vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain facts from the company auditor. Like most auditors, this one was a reserved gentleman. His reticence, and other aspects of the matter, so enraged the noble Lord that he issued a pamphlet setting forth his grievances, announcing that he would shortly resign as trustee...
Pausing a long moment; M. Briand let his words sink in, then cried with redoubled fervor...
Sweltering Showdown. Though the potent attack of M. Franklin-Bouillion and his Bloc had thus been safely weathered, long hours of sultry word-fencing by M. Briand with at least a dozen orators ensued before the question reached a vote. Fearful that the Deputies would never commit themselves to explicit ratification, the government did not put the issue squarely, as the final showdown came. Instead the Chamber was asked to pass a weasel-Jaw authorizing popular President Gaston ("Gastounet"') Domergue to perform the act of ratification by executive decree. Prior to seeking action on even this weasel...