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...Harry Payne: On a 9,000-mi. inspection trip, he found "lack of training, laxity, indifference and an almost complete lack of understanding of the requirements of a pilot." Near Charlottesville, Va., calling for weather data, he found the observer away, his wife at the post. Said she: "I reckon from where I'm sitting it's cloudy." Trembling with emotion, Witness Payne ended by shouting: "Take the Department of Commerce out of politics. You are gambling with human lives...
Said Louisiana State's mournful Tackle Justin Rukas: "I reckon we would have played a better game with Huey out there. . . ." He and his mates played well enough to beat Manhattan...
...this Depression is to secede from the United States. . . . We ain't going to get any place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going on up there...
...Oklahoma Representative Willie Cornelius Rogers filed intention to run for renomination on the Democratic ticket and use, as in 1932, the name of Will Rogers-Simultaneously, Contractor Will Oscar Rogers filed intention to run for the same nomination, use the same name. Declared Contractor Will Oscar: "I reckon I got as much right to be Will Rogers as this other feller." Golfer Maureen Orcutt, unopposed, was nominated Democratic candidate for New Jersey State Assemblywoman. Said Nominee Orcutt: "I'm not going to let politics interfere with my golf...
...Arabia. To prevent even this from attaining true unity, it was divided into various territories: the Kingdom of the Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure...