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...Confirmed appointments of Ira Ellsworth Robinson (chairman), Eugene Octave Sykes, Harold A. Lafount, Charles McKinley Saltzman to the Federal Radio Commission...
...Dingley Tariff restored the high protective duties of the McKinley Tariff (1890) which had been reduced by the Wilson Tariff (1893). It stood until 1909 when the Payne-Aldrich Tariff was enacted, causing the Republican defeat...
Died. Ansley Wilcox, 74, famed Buffalo lawyer, in whose coat and library President Roosevelt took the oath of office after the assassination of President McKinley; in Buffalo...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd worried in Antarctica last week. The work of his two-year expedition had gone as far as practicable. He had made several successful exploratory flights. Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould was back, hairy and dirty, from his 1,500-mi. geological trip to the Queen Maude Range. The Byrd ships, City of New York and Eleanor Boiling, were on the way from Dunedin, N. Z., to pick up the 42 men of his party, their records, rock specimens and equipment. The men were fretting for a change of society. Several were...
...South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot of the mountains and back, found coal traces in the range. His observations, coupled with prior ones farther north along the Ross Sea, indicated existence of a great coal bed only...