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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noose in the Vienna prison courtyard. He was cut down seven hours later at midnight, and replaced by Dr. George Weissl, heroic commandant of the Socialist fight in the Floridsdorf suburb. Said he: "I die with no regrets. I am a worker and I have fought to save my home...
...Kelly law of 1928 gave the Postmaster General authority to "extend'' mail contracts, was in no way superseded by the Watres Act. No one save Postmaster General Farley thought Mr. Brown had violated the letter or spirit of the Watres Act by his geographical extensions, for which the bill makes full provisions...
...lobby, set a movable scaffold against the wall. It was no trick to get off the covering coat of cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat of plaster on the scarified wall. Next morning a faint smell of new plaster...
Quietly into North Tarrytown, N. Y.'s trim Phillipse Manor station at 10 a. m. an electric locomotive drew a baggage car and one compartment Pullman named Glencliff. Two detectives cleared the platform of all save ticketholders. At 11 a. m. five automobiles, one resembling an ambulance, rolled up in single file. From four of them stepped 24 servants. They opened up the ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs...
Today the record is a tragedy that will cause plenty of embarrassment before the airmail business is clarified. The private companies will get justice because they will be permitted to bid again. This will save the small stockholders and investors, too, but the mothers of the young flyers who were unnecessarily sacrificed on a peace-time job that had no relationship to national defense will not find any consolation in the excuses that will be made for the accidents...