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...Hague of Jersey City had delivered legions of his well-drilled yeomanry. The fresh army of enthusiasts rose and roared acclaim as Franklin Roosevelt marched out upon the platform on the arm of Son James. Standing at the rostrum he and John Nance Garner clasped hands and raised them aloft-the Democratic ticket...
...fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible and be raining Death on enemy towns before London can suffer too great loss...
Golden mace aloft, Yale University's Provost Charles Seymour this week marched, between bristling rows of the Connecticut militia, through the leafy streets of New Haven to Yale's round-faced, granite Woolsey Hall. Behind him, in robes of green, brown and scarlet, gravely filed Yale's faculty, bound for the 235th annual commencement exercises of the University. To the families and friends of the graduates in their sombre caps & gowns, the occasion marked some 600 important personal milestones in some 600 young lives...
...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...
After weeks of experiment, a strong westerly wind and five balloons pulled the newest model radio-meteorograph through a low bush and aloft from the Blue Hill Observatory Saturday afternoon...