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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of the Court Bill, and to ask the President to accept Pat Harrison was not to ask him to take an enemy as his lieutenant. Therefore Pat Harrison's friends had burned with indignation when the President's "message to A'ben" (see p. n) emphasized Alben Barkley's place as "acting leader." Before they left Washington the President had called Pat Harrison to the White House to make amends, to assure him that he was neutral in the contest, absolutely neutral. But this did not allay the tense feeling on the funeral train...
Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola, N...
...Died. Edward Eugene Loomis, 72, longtime (1917-37) president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.; at Murray Hill, N. J. Born on a farm in Herkimer County, N. Y., he entered railroading immediately after graduation. Through his handling of coal strikes, he was made senior vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1902; in 1917 took over the Lehigh Valley and ran it through the World War as the second largest carrier of anthracite...
...Elmira, N. Y., where the Soaring Society of America was holding its eighth annual meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds...
Mouse Queen Blowers would like to make the U. S. mouse-conscious. Already the U. S. has its mouse organization: the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, about 35 members led by Rev. R. Willoughby Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y. In November the U. S. will be introduced to Mouse Queen Blowers and several hundred of her choicest mice at a Manhattan cat show...