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...Including the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk; Wiley Post's Winnie Mae; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
This week four Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Wiley, Smith, Hickenlooper and Lodge) issued a statement blaming Yalta, Potsdam and Roosevelt's and Truman's foreign policies for most of the world's current ills. The fifth member, Vandenberg, was too ill to take part in the draft, but his office announced that he was in "general agreement...
Florida. About 8,500 citizens hopped aboard when the Jacksonville Coach Co. offered free bus rides for Sunday churchgoers. Bus Magnate Wiley Moore was not sure that they all went to church-but "if anyone wants to get on the bus and say he is going to church and then not go, that will be on his conscience...
...gangster melodrama unconvincingly disguised as a documentary crusade against an $8-billion-a-year gambling racket. It was filmed, say its pressagents, under threats of violence from the underworld and with the protection of police. It begins with an endorsement by Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley, hailing it for informing the public "of the meaning of that innocent $2 bet at the candy stand." One point in the picture's favor: it is full of interesting electronic gadgets (e.g., walkie-talkies, relay amplifiers) illustrating the illegal transmission of betting information from the race tracks...
...earned-run record for rookie pitchers over a full season: 2.28, set by the New York Yankees' Wiley Moore...