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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approved a fee of $32,000 for SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank for 3,830 hr. and 45 min. work done as counsel to a trustee in the Missouri Pacific R. R. reorganization between 1935 and 1937. During his MOP service, Frank also counseled Government agencies. Now working full time for SEC at $10,000 a year, he says Government salaries should not be commensurate with private fees because Government jobs bring "inner satisfaction," outer prestige...
Before a gaping gathering last week in Manhattan's City Hall, a tall young man who looks like Gary Cooper and flies like Lindbergh, fumbled with some sheets of paper, nervous not because he had just circled the world in 3 days, 19 hr. 8 min. 10 sec., but because he had made but one previous speech in his life. "There is one thing about this flight that I would like everyone to know," he blurted at last. "It was in no way a stunt. It was the carrying out of a careful plan, and it functioned because...
First to break the tape was Boston's 119-lb. Francis Darrah, a seasoned distance runner at 25, whose time of 2 hr., 8 min., 14.6 sec. was the fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman...
...field of 47 defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...
...SEC may have tried to banish tip sheets from Wall Street, but investors may still buy astrological magazines in Manhattan's financial district. In American Astrology for July, a market forecast by one Colby Griffin said that the conjunction of Mercury and Mars "in square aspect to Saturn . . . (the house of speculation)" made caution in July investments advisable...