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...with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when expanding. Linked with a long towline, the rafts would float together until help could come. To call for help there was a waterproof, 10-inch square, 15-watt radio transmitter run by dry cells. If these gave out, a waterproof hand generator could be used. The antenna would go aloft tied to a hydrogen-inflated balloon. For the guidance of rescue ships, smaller orange balloons would be blown up, cast on the ocean waves every 15 minutes...
Table Talk (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS). Former National Association of Manufacturers President Robert L. Lund, Magazine Editor George H. Soule, Connecticut Grocer Alexander H. Watt, Bronx Housewife Mrs. Robert V. Russell are Professor Lyman Bryson's first microphone dinner guests to discuss business conditions over the coffee cups...
...Robert Watt, American Federation of Labor...
...Labor Office, which tirelessly assembles labor statistics and has negotiated more than 50 treaties bettering worldwide working conditions, proved last week that not all diplomatic wangling is confined to its parent, the League of Nations. To succeed resigning Director Harold Beresford Butler of Great Britain, U. S. Delegate Robert Watt proposed his fellow countryman, social-minded, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant. British Delegate Joseph Hallsworth wanted Assistant Director E. J. Phelan of Eire elected. Delegate Hallsworth accused the U. S. of applying diplomatic pressure for Mr. Winant. Pointed answer of Delegate Watt: Compared to Britons, Americans are "diplomatic novices...
Beside supporting Watt next fall, the League will probably back New-Dealer Thomas H. Eliot '28, lecturer on Government, in a campaign for Congress from the ninth Massachusetts district. Charles Miller, progressive Republican State Congressman from Dorchester, may also receive League support...