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Last week President Roosevelt, en route east after a triumphal tour of the Northwest, was on hand to dedicate and open for traffic the last connecting link between the new north and south side outer drives. What Franklin Roosevelt, his head filled with international affairs, had to say about the span he said in 29 vague words: "My friends, I am glad to come again to Chicago and especially to have the opportunity of taking part in the dedication of this important project of civic betterment...
...second Red touchdown came early in the fourth period, the termination of a 55-yard triumphal march. Most of the ball carrying in this parade was shared by Struck, Foley, and Torby Macdonald. This time Struck's was successful...
...hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
Juan Trippe's triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one of the famed Clippers, which are flying boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last...