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...celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard in the land since a whisper from Samuel Insull was a roar from the douds. . . . I refer to the shrill, waning "No, no, no," while Referee Arthur Donovan ended the fight by counting...
...With eight other pilots, he was awaiting the start of the dangerous Bendix Trophy Race across the nation to Cleveland in the opening event of the 15th annual National Air Races. Presently the fog began to lift, allowed the nine racers to take off in the dark. Last to roar down the field, just as dawn broke, was Pilot Cecil A. Allen, 33, alone in a tiny, fat, Gee Bee monoplane, immensely powerful, but frowned on by the air-wise because of its radical design. Down the runway it careened like an insane bumblebee, finally bouncing into...
...headstart ticked away, Pilot Howard watched the clock, listened nervously for the roar of Colonel Turner's low-wing monoplane. Just as time was about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry...
...tide. Already that morning Senator Borah had taken Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee firmly in hand, in three hours helped him draft a Neutrality Resolution with provision for a mandatory arms embargo. Called up the next day, it went through the Senate with a unanimous roar that left its sponsors blinking...
...open flouting of their predictions. "Disastrous to the entire cotton-growing South!" cried Senator George. "Cotton shippers won a great victory. . . . The plan will be very confusing!" snapped Senator Bankhead. When the market price of cotton slumped nearly 1? a Ib. on the news, their outcry rose to a roar. "I am embarrassed and confused!" exclaimed Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton. To get enough votes to ensure victory...