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Rich and famed is Charles Lanier Lawrance. designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine, onetime vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. One day last week big, amiable "Charley" Lawrance stood up on a rostrum of a bleak lecture hall at Manhattan's Columbia University. Gravely he drawled from a typewritten sheet: ". . . Cash on hand, $875.06. . . . Accounts receivable . . . 80?. . . . Net worth. $6,077.76." Amid a patter of applause Mr. Lawrance sat down...
...streets asked one another: "Have they landed yet? Have they been found?" The balloon had been reported drifting southeast of Moscow but nobody was sure. At 3 p. m., behind the Kremlin's closed doors, A. S. Enukidze, stolid secretary of the Central Executive Committee, mounted the rostrum before the Congress. Gravely he began: "Comrades, I have bad news for you. The Osoaviakhim balloon met disaster yesterday afternoon between 3:30 and 5 o'clock near the village of Potisky Ostrog [150 mi. southeast of Moscow]. The balloon and gondola crashed and the three aeronauts were killed instantly...
...seven debates, five of which involve trips, was announced yesterday by the Debating Council. On February 10, the radio debate with Columbia will take place, and on the seventeenth, the team will journey to Philadelphia to meet the University of Pennsylvania. Providence College will be met on its home rostrum on March...
Biggest news of the conventions was reserved for the last day of the American Economic Association meeting when Professor Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, took the rostrum, propounded a doctrine which was neither hard nor soft, liberal nor conservative, but from the standpoint of economics bright red. Said he: "We have depended too long on the hope that private ownership and control would operate somehow for the benefit of society as a whole. That hope has not been realized. . . . Private control has failed to use wisely its control of the land...
...widespread electrification may have been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...