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...private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
Keynoter of the three-day shindig was young Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, apostate New Dealer, who delivered a 90-min. harangue in favor of all Father Coughlin's"16 points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice...
Like a swarm of insects attracted by spilled sugar, 437 airplanes of all shapes and sizes last week buzzed into Miami for the eighth annual shindig known as the All-American Air Maneuvers. Incidents...
...found an all-embracing Toilet Goods Association. The National Association of Purchasing Agents harkened to inflation warnings, and the American Scrap Exporters Conference learned that only 10% to 15% of the iron & steel junk shipped abroad went indirectly into armaments. The New York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week...
...line is completely veteran. Three of the men started the Stadium shindig last year, and the three men on the left side of the line started the game two years ago with the famous Brown team...