Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened to a mass of testimony of which two highlights were Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, head of the Lakehurst base, and Werner Franz, the Hindenburg's twelve-year-old cabin...
...Atlantic. Laden with photographs of the Coronation, 15,000 "covers" and stamps for philatelists, they took off from Southport in his Wasp-motored Lockheed Electro. last week three days after reaching Croydon. Flying blind most of the way over the ocean, Merrill & Lambie dropped down at Squantum, Mass., to check their gas supply, immediately dashed on to Floyd Bennett Field, which they reached 24 hr., 22 min. after leaving Southport. Their backer, Wall Street Operator Ben Smith who incorporated under the extraordinary title "Anglo-American Good-Will Coronation Flight Corp.," at once set about selling his exclusive set of pictures...
...Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special...
...remains despite persuasive arguments that particular jobs are well done. The vice is that the bar has been charging all that the traffic will bear. It has forsaken the tradition that its members are officers of the court. .. . Organization for the practice of law on the large scale of mass production has contributed to the alleged necessity of computing legal fees on an overhead rather than on a service basis. . . . Modest professional standards have been discarded...
...classroom radios were tuned-in in four time zones one day last week to hear what bustling Commissioner John Ward Studebaker of the U. S. Office of Education had arranged as an "ideal commencement program." National Broadcasting contributed a network of some 50 stations. Purpose of this giant mass commencement was not to award diplomas but to hear four commencement speakers of a calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University's Dr. Walter Boughton Pitkin (Life Begins At Forty) and Boston...