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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came explanation of a mystery which had puzzled the U. S. Maritime Commission and the U. S. State Department: where was the Commission's freighter City of Flint, which cleared New York City for Manchester on Oct. 3, and never arrived? One of her passengers, James G...
Last week the Commission issued its decision. Although there was "grave doubt" about the station's "qualifications to operate in ... the public interest," the Commission was of the opinion that "an order of revocation of license need not be entered at this time." Reason: "These particular broadcasts were provoked...
For Moore-McCormack the deal was even better. Under U. S. Government charter and direct ownership the firm operates American Republics Line's passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12...
"Big Lub" to other ball players and rock fighters in Cincinnati when he was a boy, William Howard Taft was large but not lubberly. At Yale he worked hard, though he complained about it. As a young lawyer he was sound if seldom successful. As an Ohio Circuit Judge between...
> This week Tass, official Russian news agency, reported that a German cruiser had seized the U. S. Maritime Commission's 4,963-ton vessel City of Flint (which rescued survivors of the Athenia), bound from Manhattan to Manchester with a contraband cargo of foods, cotton, sewing machines, plows, tractors...