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...Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, their matching has been obstructed by the Vatican for years. On behalf of Pope Pius XI it was denied last week that he had been asked to grant a special dispensation. While King Boris appeared to have won his main point, the marriage contract will provide that all children born to Princess Giovanna will be reared as Roman Catholics except the heir to the Throne who must, according to the Bulgarian constitution, be Bulgarian Orthodox...
...commonly predicted, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown last week awarded the central transcontinental airmail contract (TIME, Sept. 8) to Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express, joint bidders. Promptly the bidders organized a new operating company, Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. Most of the stock will be owned equally by T. A. T. and Western Air Express, the balance by Pittsburgh Aviation Industries. Officers: chairman, Clement Melville Keys (chairman, T. A. T.); president, Harris M. Hanshue (president, Western Air Express...
...Enoch W. ("Baggy") Bagshaw, Supervisor of Transportation for the State of Washington, onetime coach of University of Washington's championship footballers (led the Pacific Coast Conference in 1925); suddenly, of apoplexy, at Olympia, Wash. After last year's unsuccessful season, Washington alumni and undergraduates agreed to pay Bagshaw his contract salary for two years more if he would resign. He resigned. (Last week the Washington team trounced Montana...
...story in Great Britain, this was introduced in the U. S. by the St. Louis Star in 1919. Ever since the late great Lord Northcliffe began to pile up massive circulations, British newsreaders have been able to get accident insurance practically free. Sometimes no contract was necessary : Lord Northcliffe once agreed to pay ?1,000 to the heirs of anyone killed in a railroad train who had a copy of the Daily Mail on his person; other British papers made similar offers. Two years ago. under Lord Rothermere (Northcliffe's successor-brother) the Daily Mail paid...
...American Airways. As everyone expected, Pan American Airways, the sole bidder, last week was awarded the airmail contract from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana to Santos, Brazil-3,275 mi. The rate: $2 per mi. for 800 Ib. of mail; $1 a pound per 1,000 mi. for excess load...