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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Piccard had, as he promised, taken greater precautions for his second flight. He was not seeking a new altitude record. A height of ten miles, as before, would satisfy his purpose of studying fur ther the origin of cosmic rays. His last observations agreed with famed Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan that the rays emanate from between the stars.* The new aluminum gondola which he had built to carry himself and his new assistant, Max Cosyns, 25, was superior to last year's which, covered with tourists' scratchings, rests in the library of the Free University, Brussels...
...Skinner, a War veteran, wants the Government to cease building hospitals to treat injured veterans. He wants only those veterans who were disabled by actual military servive to get free Government medical care. At present any ex-service man can get free treatment or hospitalization no matter what the origin of his ills. Under certain circumstances he can get free medical attention for his family...
...First, in accordance with the spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations they intend to exchange views with one another with complete candor concerning, and to keep each other mutually informed of, any questions coming to their notice similar in origin to that now so happily settled at Lausanne which may affect the European regime. It is their hope that other governments will join them in adopting their procedure...
Banked tightly in their rows and boxes in the teeming hothouse of Chicago Stadium last week, flooded with artificial light, seething and waving in a slow chaos of mob emotions, the Democracy presented a spectacle not unlike the steaming jungle of man's origin. Predominant were the lowest of political vegetables?the common or garden delegates with no thought or power but to vote as instructed by the folks at home or the bosses in the hothouse. Planted among them were some of society's finest flowers?Byrds from Virginia, Maryland's Ritchie, New York's Davis. Like Irish potatoes...
...company's stock while Fox was in control. Some of the counts had already been aired before the Senate Committee, but he was charged with committing "divers acts of misappropriation and malfeasance," accused of realizing "through unjust and unlawful means and devices . . . large gains of a fraudulent and secret origin and nature." Fox Theatres seeks to recover specifically $2,782,825 from Founder Fox, and by compelling Founder Fox to open his private books hopes eventually to obtain $5,000,000. Prominent among the "divers acts" cited was forcing brokers to hand over a $441,000 share of an underwriting...