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...fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration over some disappointment in someone failing to blow something or other. He was just as serious as was the ignorance of Rhodes when he gave thirteen scholarships meaning one for every state in our Union. I've been disappointed not only in what I thought was a superior English intelligence but also in their accent. So far as I can make out Harvard is the best place for the Oxford accent...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...
...Thirteen members of the Faculty of the Law School including former Dean Roscoe Pound came out for the election of Governor Alfred M. Landon, and the entire state Republican ticket in Massachusetts it was learned yesterday...
...Thirteen billion dollars added to the public debt. Eleven million unemployed left on base." Noticeably elated by the success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone...
...College, oh it's great thing. I envy every one of you. You're lucky, that's what, you are, lucky. Why I went to work when I was thirteen. I pounded the piano at cheap dives on Coney Island, and say, did you know I pounded the piano one place and Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter...