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...Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission. But Mos cow and Washington are not on speaking terms. Thus began a long and devious exchange of messages between the capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

Professor Piccard had, as he promised, taken greater precautions for his second flight. He was not seeking a new altitude record. A height of ten miles, as before, would satisfy his purpose of studying fur ther the origin of cosmic rays. His last observations agreed with famed Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan that the rays emanate from between the stars.* The new aluminum gondola which he had built to carry himself and his new assistant, Max Cosyns, 25, was superior to last year's which, covered with tourists' scratchings, rests in the library of the Free University, Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Nothing Foolish | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...investors, large and small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses: J. P. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debts & Dissent | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...subject he may be discussing. I do feel, however, that the holder of this position should be thoroughly acquainted with the work of the Committee on the Choice of Electives for, as long as Harvard is a liberal arts rather than a vocational college, courses should be selected for ther own value rather than for the possible benefit which they would give in the way of training one for a vocation. This the vocational director must realize in order that he may not encroach on a field that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DALY DISCUSSES STUDENT COUNCIL VOCATION REPORT | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

...campaign for 'America first,' now being conducted in Chicago by Mayor Thmpson is nothing more than a smoke-screen, thrown up by the group in power ther to cloak their real purposes," was all that David Saville Muzzey '93, Professor of History at Columbia University, would say specifically about the situation existing in Chicago at the present time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ANTI-BRITISH ATTACK A SMOKE-SCREEN"--MUZZEY | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

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