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...President informally suggested that the Assistant Secreta- ries-for-Air of the War, Commerce and Navy Departments might in- vestigate transoceanic flying by civilians. Assistant Secretaries Davison, MacCracken and Warner met forthwith, decided that public opinion was a better deterent to foolhardiness than Government regulation...
William P. MacCracken Jr. of the Aeronautical Bureau of the Department of Commerce, also secretary of the American Bar Association, said his Department would gladly undertake whatever regulatory powers Congress might confer but added, ". . . Adoption of regulations will not end the loss of life in these pioneering enterprises...
Last week William P. MacCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, announced that 23,310,355 miles had been flown by 1,536 commercial airplanes in the U. S. during 1926. His report included planes engaged in the mail service, passenger transport, exhibition flying, advertising, photography, crop dusting, etc. Adding the distance traveled by Army, Navy and Coast Guard planes, a total U. S. air mileage of 48,586,492 was recorded...
...MacCracken's Crack. Last week, President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College, where the young women themselves regulate all questions of smoking, said: "Tobacco is one of the country's most important crops. The men can't smoke it all up. Why shouldn't the women help...
President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College: "Some men amused themselves and my white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards...