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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cash & Carry. But fear of war still stirred in Congress. So in May 1937 another Neutrality Act was passed. At the instigation of Bernard M. Baruch, wise old chairman of the onetime War Industries Board, it added to the provisions of the earlier acts, authority for the President to forbid the export of any goods to a warring nation except on a cash & carry basis. He never used this power and two months ago it expired...
...still brilliantly in the running was Lieutenant Robert M. Stanley of Pensacola's naval air base. Fortnight ago he had upped the U. S. altitude record to 13,400 feet (world record: German Captain Walter Drechsel's 23,196 feet). Last week, skilfully riding the air currents, he darted deliberately into just such a cumulus as had made Udo Fischer abandon his plane, bettered his own record by 3,194 feet...
...Until his death in 1936 Hawk supported Alf Landon. But if Gene Howe never gets to Congress, he probably won't be too sorry. Never has he returned from a trip to his Texas duck blinds, daily golf, bridge & poker that he hasn't cried: "I'm never, never going away again...
...long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied. The Minute Men of 1774-5, was first of a series of nine America's Lost Plays which NBC is putting on (Thursdays, 9 p. m. E. D. S. T.) as "prestige programs" this summer, at a cost of from $1,000 to $2,000 a week...
Last week CBS's best "prestige program," Columbia Workshop, celebrated its third birthday on the air by inaugurating a Festival (Thursdays, 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.) of 13 broadcasts. Eight are the pick of the 140 radio plays the Workshop has done since its beginning. Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan...