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Naval aeronautics last week went on trial before a Senate Committee. Sponsor of the investigation was Maryland's Senator Millard Evelyn Tydings, bony-faced War veteran, whose Committee was authorized to inquire into "the conditions surrounding the type, speed and comparativity of fast pursuit and bombing planes with those of other nations and all other matters pertaining thereto." In the background of the investigation there loomed up the old Navy controversy of battleship v. plane...
...Delphic Festivals; at Delphi, Greece. Sponsor: Greek Government...
...Digest office, however, would not reveal whether Robert J. Cuddihy. able, amiable, Roman Catholic vice president of Funk & Wagnalls, actual publisher of the Digest and sponsor for its poll, was personally...
...Chief sponsor for this motorway was Lester P. Barlow of Stamford, Conn., President of N. Y. & N. E. M. Corp. Mr. Barlow once invented a flying torpedo which according to his specifications, giant motors would drive 225 m. p. h. for 1,000 miles to discharge 500 Ib. of TNT. More practicable, less lethal was the plan Mr. Barlow lately drew up and presented to President Hoover for a system of private turnpikes linking all major U. S. cities. Last week Mr. Barlow assembled at his Stamford home his friends and supporters, outlined his plans for local cooperation on this...
...Chicago Civic Opera building is an up-to-date secondary auditorium, red and brown and coppery, seating 900. where many Chicagoans in the past year have resumed their acquaintance with Shakespeare and liked it. Chief sponsor of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...