Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, like many another newspaper, the New York Times carried an astonishing picture of a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It turned out to be an April Fooler concocted by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. Year later, another story blossomed in Germany-that a pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human...
Round & round over New York City one noon last week wheeled some 100 private planes to draw the city's eyes to the sky, its feet to New York's first aviation show since 1930. New Yorkers, 95% male and 50% under 20, responded with a will. They trooped into Grand Central Palace, gaped at 32 planes, milled around 100 exhibition booths, badgered salesmen and demonstrators with questions they could not always answer. With 1936 sales up 85% over 1935 on a gross business of $76,805,000 in ships and parts, U. S. air-crafters beamed...
Last week in Manhattan, with no impunity except his own brilliance, Chicago's Hutchins shredded the complacency of nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy of law on which he built a program for legal education. Then he dared the Bar really to reform legal education. His dramatic appeal did not come kindly to all the listening legalists in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, but they voted him an honorary member of their Bar in admiration...
Huckster's Trade. Educator Hutchins was not the only reformer to speak last week to the New York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical...
...than there are doctors (157,000), and many more people need doctors than lawyers. The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of la wing in the country. To make its point, the Journal printed a letter from a young lawyer who went rustic after three long discouraging years in Manhattan...