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Back from the War, Mr. Morrow was asked to raise $3,000,000 for Amherst. Then Classmate Coolidge's Administration got in public hot water for the dirigible Shenandoah's disaster. Classmate Morrow was asked to serve on an ameliorating board "for purposes of making a study of the best means of developing and applying aircraft in national defense." And two years later (1927), came the roughest assignment yet. Mexico was on the verge of confiscating foreign property. Respecting not only the House of Morgan, which had extensive Mexican holdings, but his helpful fellow-student, President Coolidge sent Ambassador Morrow...
...Nice, the U. S. consul asked French police to protect Gibson Fahnestock Jr., rich, U. S. .socialite on whose yacht Shenandoah III several members of the Chinese crew had started a fight. Shenandoah III is elaborately fitted out with Oriental antiques, has a great staring eye painted on her bow. Mr. & Mrs. Fahnestock and four children are world-cruising on it. Once before, at Singapore last December, the Chinese crew mutinied, knocked down the captain and Owner Fahnestock...
...dirigible flight; Dr. Arnstein, gentle-mannered, owlish, designer of the ship, who deprecated the celebration as "boasting before the baby actually walks"; hardbitten Admiral Moffett who won the $8,000,000 authorization for the Akron and her sister (ZRS-5) in the face of terrific opposition aroused by the Shenandoah disaster; and Goodyear-Zeppelin's President Paul Weeks Litchfield...
When President Hoover picked the Rapidan for his camp, he had no idea that his presence there would hurt, rather than help Virginia gather up private land to contribute as the Shenandoah National Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone...
...dirigible, Los Angeles, largest of the United States Navy fleet. made am unexpected rip to Boston and vicinity shortly after dusk last night. The great ship, which is the only, one of its size in this country since the ill-fated Shenandoah disaster in 1927, circled over Cambridge bound for parts unknown...