Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover led off with a 45-min. speech. Then each guest was asked to give his remedies for the nation's ills, beginning with Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution who illustrated his remarks with a smoking-compartment story about a young man in a lingerie shop. The publishers' consensus was that the President should be more firm with Congress. Aggrievedly President Hoover replied that when he had attempted to reprimand Congress he was not only jumped on by Congress but by the publishers. At this point someone brought up the real business of the evening, suggested...
...Princetonian to sit in the White House. Last week, at the Socialist National Convention in Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination. As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer, one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity. Its days are numbered. Its doom is written in its own failures. . . . The choice now confronting...
...much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able to publish "A. E.'s" book of her flight to Wales, entitled 20 Hrs. 40 Min...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...
...Pruyn '35 won the junior singles race in the Invitation Regatta yesterday over a half-mile course. His time was 3 min., 4 sec., which is 5 seconds faster than his showing in the novice race which he won Tuesday. F. C. Bell '33 and S. D. Pierce '32 received second and third places, respectively...