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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprised to read your squib in Transport column (TIME, May 9) on Verdun High's 5? hydrogen-charged balloon and its long distance perambulations which weren't long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese...
...Washington last week, a reporter asked Secretary of State Cordell Hull whether the U. S. contemplated altering its policy of refusing officially to recognize Italy's conquest in view of the fact that, at Geneva last week, the League of Nations Council had decided to permit recognition by member nations. The Secretary's reply: "Our policy remains absolutely unchanged...
...level best for Franklin Roosevelt, drawled: "We have done our dead level best to ... be helpful to business recovery." By no means reassured but heartily sick of six months' talk about taxes, the House discussed the bill briefly, extended the hour allotted for discussion to pay tributes to Member Vinson, who had been rewarded for his labors by a $12,500 appointment to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Then it passed the measure 242 votes to 89, sent it to the White House for signature...
Interest in the Senate hearings was so slight, however, that Senator Bone was the only member of his subcommittee present. Undaunted, Dennis Chavez, whom Co-Sponsor William Gibbs McAdoo credits with originating the bill, emphasized the importance of San Diego as the station site. He explained that San Diego would click with Latin-American audiences on account of its Spanish name, that a station at the San Diego Naval Base would be useful to the Navy...
Among the Sophomores Hazlett is a member of the Kirkland House Committee, Lightbody is on the track team and was class president in his freshman year, and Neal is vice-president of the Debating Council and a member of the Dunster House Committee. Hazlett was fifteenth in the 1940 election, Lightbody was fourth, and Neal eighth...