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James G. Woolley, onetime vice president of Western Air Express, revealed that Ernest Winder Smoot, son of Utah's pious Reed Smoot, longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been hired to "expedite" Comptroller General McCarl's approval of a Western Air bid for an airmail contract. Harris Hanshue. Western Air president, admitted that Ernest Smoot had "sold" his company the idea that he could put the contract through...
...Ernest Winder Smoot, youngest son of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was proud that his Irish setter. "Delaware Kate," had been judged the best dog in the Buffalo Kennel Club show...
...watch is described as "the first practical solution of the perpetual motion problem" by the inventor. Tests have proved that it is an accurate time-place; possibly even more accurate than the ordinary stem-winder...
During the twentieth century too, the present curriculum and administrative policies were established. The limited academic field of earlier years gave way to a course likewise arbitrary in its requirements, but considerably winder in range; so that the cadet graduating now is generally studied in French, Spanish, and English literatures, as well as in matters more directly military. The fundamental subject is, however, engineering, and in this the cadets are thoroughly trained...
...holes, Jones found himself possessed of still another title. To his U. S. Open and British Open titles, he had added that of his native Dixieland. Professionals Johnny Farrell, Quaker Ridge, N. Y., and John Golden, Patterson, N. J., were tied for second place, eight strokes behind the winder's 281. In an especially arranged playoff two days later, Golden defeated Fanell 70-71, took the first cash award...