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...TIME, Jan. 22, 1934). The Navy's high command modestly waved aside the acclaim that followed this remarkable flight, said it was merely a rou tine transfer of men and equipment. Last week the Navy effected another "routine transfer of men and equipment," sur passed Squadron VP-10's mass-flight record...
...could doubt the Geological Sur vey cr Painter Thomas Moran. When he came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby, where it is today. In 1872 Yellowstone Valley became the first National Park, and Thomas Moran acquired the nickname that stuck to him for the rest of his life: Thomas ("Yellowstone") Moran...
...California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals for the New York Zoological Park, U. S. Nationa Zoological Park, been field collector for the British Museum, U. S. Biological Sur vey, National Museum, traveled in Italy Mexico and France, becoming "the second American to trap in Europe." An early photographer of wild animals, he has pursued them throughout the West especially in the deserts, gathering material for cowboy stories and visiting more than 20 Indian tribes...
...Childress, Chief Auditor, State of Tennessee, addressed to you at New York and in this copy of letter to you he sent extracts from Souvenirs sur la Revolution, I'Empire et la Restauration by General Rochechouert, Paris...
...police, and a jailed bond "fence" named David Frank, police got the lead which subsequently revealed that the gang maintained headquarters in Monte Carlo, entertained prospective customers with yachting trips along the Côte d'Azur, houseparties at their French chateaux. Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale at a Paris bank...