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...bandanas, a pounding of hoofs, a whooping of cowhands and a continuous schedule of feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount...
...Physiology. From M. I. T.: Horace S. Ford, treasurer of the Institute, and Carroll L. Wilson, assistant in the President's office. From the officers of Harvard, Clinton P. Biddile, professor of Investment Banking, and Associate Dean of the Business School. From the students of M. I. T. Willard Roper. From the three upper classes at Harvard, Francis Keppel '38, president of the Student Council, Jack D. Andrews '39, and Thomas V. Healey '40, captain of last year's Freshman Football team...
...Washington was devoted to conferences with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Roving Ambassador Norman Hezekiah Davis and Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission. Members of the Cabinet hurried up to the White House for their first meeting in several weeks. After the meeting, Secretaries Wallace, Ickes and Roper hurried to the Carlton Hotel for a special showing of the MARCH of TIME newsreel's current issue on the War in China. A few minutes after the President left the Executive Offices for the day, a three, sentence statement on the war was released to the Press...
Recently Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper has made pointed remarks about Pan American's "monopoly." And the new Maritime Commission has lately appointed Grover Loening, famed early plane designer, to advise it on such matters as subsidizing transatlantic airships or planes. Aviation folk therefore were betting last week that American Export would win Government permission for its new venture. Far less easy is likely to be the rapid establishment, without planes, personnel, experience or foreign landing rights of a long-distance airline over the world's toughest aerial route...
...philanthropic heir of Chicago's Wilson Bros, (haberdashery manufacturers), part owner (through his wife) of Washington's Woodward & Lothrop department store, great & good friend of Surgeon General Parran, of Senator Robert La Follette (for whose Civil Liberties Committee Luke Wilson Jr. is an investigator), of Secretary Roper. On July 19 Donor Wilson died, of cancer...