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...MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
...self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
...Salem Jail, brash and blustering as ever, marched Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed roughneck Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., having served his two-month term for violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...
...dollar bills will start coming off the presses on Nov. 1, but will not reach the public's hands until February (after a two-month's supply has been put in the Treasury reserve). Twelve bills will be printed on each sheet going through the presses, instead of eight as is the case with the present bills. Half of the bureau's 5,000 employes will be used in producing the new bills...
Mountain Streams. The official death list of the two-month flood of the Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky...