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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Wheeler's own ideas were dwarfed in news by his presenting the official views of the Court, a letter from Chief Justice Hughes answering specific questions put by Mr. Wheeler. True to Supreme Court tradition the Chief Justice confined his discussion to questions of Court efficiency, twice repeated a refusal to deal with the political issue at stake. The Hughes report asserted that...
...Best year was 1933, when airlines flew 21,700,000 passenger-miles per fatality. Worst accident year on record for U. S. railroads was 1907, when they killed 647 passengers while running 27,700,000,000 passenger-miles. This was 42,800,000 passenger-miles per fatality or about twice as good as the air's best record. In 1936, though the lines equaled their most favorable record for crashes (eight), they killed a record number of passengers (44) because ships have got bigger. This holocaust has lately shrunk public confidence in flying to new lows, caused a terrific...
...Rubber's stockholders early this month President Francis Breese Davis Jr. reported that their 76,563 acres of cultivated Sumatran and Malayan rubber trees last year yielded 42,185,000 Ib. of caoutchouc, earned $1,943,790 profit, twice the 1935 figure. More interesting to preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even...
...Peppers, one of the nine plays in Tonight at 8:30, which closed abruptly in Manhattan fortnight ago when Author Coward took to his bed with laryngitis (TIME, March 22). at the stage door. He gave the crowd a furious look, sent his overcoat to the cleaners. Twice he has tired of it all, taken his shattered nerves on world-weary cruises...
According to the letter which Bacon sent to the signers of the petition and which appears in the Bulletin today, there were 204 signatures on the petition. Three of them occurred twice, and of the remainder 84 were found to be eligible...