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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little incentive to stand by white strikers, although C. I. O. has embraced Negroes more willingly than A. F. of L., which frequently carries discrimination to the point of segregating them in "Jim Crow unions" affiliated with its regular craft unions. The only Negro-controlled international union in the U. S. is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
...Since regular passenger flights began in 1919, more than 2,300 airports have dotted the U. S., of which less than 10% are scheduled airline stops. Most are already out of date, many are dangerous to big, heavily loaded luxury liners. Among the 16 odd airports serving Greater New York, none can qualify with the Air Commerce Bureau's classification as super terminals (4,000 ft. runways in four directions plus two miles of clear approaches). But the metropolis has many places where a pilot can sit down...
...minutes and a mile farther away is the next most important landing-Floyd Bennett Field off the tip of Brooklyn. Smoother than Newark, superior in equipment and less hazardous to approach, its commercial activities are confined to a single regular passenger service-one American Airliner a day to Boston-taxi services and private flying. Third field is Port Washington, a temporary base for German and British flying boats and Bermuda Clippers. The 20-mile journey from Grand Central takes just under an hour. The great runways at Mitchell Field and the smaller ones at Miller Field, Staten Island are used...
Said the Nation's good-natured epitaph last week: "We liked Mr. Broun and his page, and we claimed for ourselves and our other regular contributors only the right we unquestionably gave to him-free expression of opinion. The irony of Mr. Broun's disapproval was that he and we saw eye to eye on the court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress...
...Congressmen are glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...