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...when the Senate passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence of the Vice President...
...Well, let us cut the pear...
...historic trees of North America have reached-or are about to reach —senescence and demise. One by one, the innumerable Washington elms are passing Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree, antedating even them, flourished and brought forth fruit for more than 200 years- and is no more...
...incident is curiously paralleled by the episode of the use of Bubbles, a painting by Sir John Everett Millais, famed Englishman, for advertising purposes by the Pear's Soap Co. Millais, however, did not connive at the commercial use of his art. On the contrary, it was done without his knowledge; and his wrath knew no bounds when he discovered...
Beauty's prize is a golden apple, smooth, lustrous, a pretty toy. The prize of 'leadership is a prickly pear...