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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
Died. Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, 70; of coronary thrombosis; near Monticello, N...
Died. Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe. 97, onetime (1879-94) publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer (now owned by Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels), Confederate veteran who always frowned when the word "Yankee" was used in his presence; of old age; in Raleigh, N...
...barnstorming plane down in a Michigan peat bog, was intrigued by its softness, became Peter Patterer the Peatman. Richard Whitney the Broker, intrigued by peat's possibilities, once put his barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...
With that explanation last June, shortly before his retirement from the Presidency of the National Association of Broadcasters, Mark Ethridge asked broadcasting stations to submit all scripts of news broadcasts for the week of June 20, prepared the N. A. B. to dispute the statement. Columbia School of Journalism's Assistant to the Dean Herbert Brucker was delegated to draw up a report on these solicited scripts and on transcriptions taken from the air. Although the N. A. B. has been guardedly quiet about the survey's progress, last week Motion Picture Daily's Jack Banner upset...