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...Archbishop, who were appointed the official censors. Since they cannot be expected to rush to a projection room directly from the Coronation, and do their censorship at once, Gaumont British was on the point of abandoning last week its plans to have famed British Flyers Jim Mollison and Beryl Markham take off in separate planes with duplicate Coronation films in an effort to get these to the U. S. quickly...
Clutching a flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...
Around him he rallied those whom he calls upon in all major" catastrophes: his Reliever-in-Chief, Harry Hopkins, his Commander of Public Health, Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., his mover of battalions, Chief of Staff Malin Craig, the Army's ranking engineer, Major General Edward Murphy Markham, the chairman cf the American Red Cross. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and many another. Together they mapped and planned how to care for a million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
Next day Rural Electrification Administrator Cooke and Major General Edward M. Markham, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, hastily issued an edict against "political" speeches. New Dealers continued their "non-political" power campaigns. Dr. Harlow S. Person (Rural Electrification) and K. Sewall Wingfield (PWA) criticized private utility management. William Wooden (Federal Trade Commission) declared that the gas industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects...