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...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...
...House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee had halved a $5,000,000 Interior Department item for further work on the Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains Park highway-which runs through his district and close by his farm...
Other airship disasters and fatalities have been: the French "Dixmude" in 1923, 52; the U.S.S. "Shenandoah" in 1925, 14; the "Italia", lost in the Arctic in 1928 with Commander Nobile and seven others; the British R-101 in 1930, 46; Its sister ship, the R-100, was dismantled. The "Roma" crashed in Virginia in 1932 with the loss of 34 lives...
Married. David Swope, son of President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co.; and Sarah Porter Hunsaker, daughter of Aircraft Designer Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime (1928-33) vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Co.; in Boston...
Meanwhile Shenandoah and Blue Ridge corporations, the two investment companies which Mr. Williams and Waddill Catchings had put together in 1929, were on their way to the limbo from which Floyd Odium later plucked them (TIME, April 24, 1933). It was for background information on these that SEC had called Mr. Williams. When Attorney Smith persisted in asking if the Williams "empire" was not greater in 1935 than in 1929, he apparently used a word very annoying to his smiling witness. Said Mr. Williams sharply...