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...Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers Bureau, National Democratic Committee, Eastern Division of Colored Voters, by appointment of Mr. James A. Farley...
...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...
...what he planned to do after giving up his office tomorrow said that he was going to tend to his own business. This declaration is enough to evoke a respiration by the people of the state that will create a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and at least a zephyr in the Himalayas. Too long have they had the impression that he was at one and the same time mismanaging other people's business and attending to his own, in the usual sense of the word...
With the commemoration today of the 329th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the Tercentenary Year sings its official swan song Ushered in a year ago with fanfare and celebration in Sanders Theatre and wafted out this morning by the gentle zephyr of a Chapel service for the founder, the year that has held the mirror up to Harvard's greatness now goes into history. Yet it is typical of the spirit of Harvard's past that the leaders who breathed life into the Tercentenary exercises were thinking not so much of resting on laurel's already...
...Around a bend in the track near the Naperville, Ill. Country Club last week streaked Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.'s streamliner Zephyr. Down within 200 ft. above it swooped a trim red Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply...