Word: r
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch of a sunken ship. Last week, the best hope...
...years ago Harvard's dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, petitioned by the faculty, appointed a faculty committee (including Felix Frankfurter) to investigate the affair, few expected anything to come of it. For Messrs. Walsh and Sweezy, nothing did; President Conant politely turned down the committee's recommendation that the pair be rehired (TIME, June...
...less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...
When Canadian Colonial left the brood of Aviation Corp. (largest unit, American Airlines) stocky, purposeful Sigmund Janas was assistant to American's President C. R. Smith. Earlier he had learned the tricks of financing as Deputy Superintendent of Banks in California, the tricks of airline operation as president's assistant for Western Air Express. Close friend of Motorman Errett Lobban Cord (American's chief stockholder) he had also learned how to combine the tricks of operation and banking, take over ah airline (as Cord had American) and make it tick...
...members of the faculty, still to be selected, have been invited as guest observers on the Naval R. O. T. C. cruise this summer on board the battleship U. S. S. Wyoming...