Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Acts as well as words came from the White House as election aftermath. President Hoover summoned Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock back to Washington from San Francisco just as he was sailing for Hawaii (see p. 20). Estimates were prepared on which President Hoover would "recommend to Congress a special emergency appropriation to be applied to a further intensification of public works ... to provide further employment...
...matter has already been brought to the attention of Congress by Hon. Wright Patman, a War-veteran, who made an extended speech on this subject on April 3, 1930, in Congress...
...Commerce & Navigation ruled that aircraft must not alight on Jersey's inland waters, loud was the protest of the men who build, sell and operate seaplanes and amphibians (TIME, Sept. 29). H. Stewart McDonald Jr., counsel for the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and John J. Redfield for Curtiss-Wright Corp. confronted the Board last fortnight, wrung from it a modification of the ruling in principle: Instead of being a blanket restriction, the rule shall apply only to Lake Hopatcong. Each application for water landings elsewhere will be considered on its merits. A member of the Board said that "companies...
...Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying...
...government of Brazil has a perfect right to buy munitions in this country," announced Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week. When Brazil's government promptly ordered ten used Curtiss-Wright planes, the U. S. War Department consented to provide, for $97.74, certain "brackets" needed to adapt the ten planes for use as bombers...