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Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, made a tentative contract with the Alabama Power Co. for the disposal of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first...
...refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats were smug...
...investigations, a committee headed by Dwight W. Morrow made recommendations last December for more and better aviation-principally: 1) That peacetime activities be put under a Bureau of Air Navigation headed by an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce; that the U. S. Air Mail Service be extended, preferably by contract. 2) That an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation be created; that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken in the Navy Department...
Kermit had sought this contract for months, might have lost out in the unusually keen competition, were it not for the recommendation of President Crowley of the Fleet Corp. Assured of operating the line, this youngest living son of the late President Roosevelt exclaimed: "I am convinced that there is an excellent future for the American Merchant Marine and intend to devote all my time toward making my operations a success...
...that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated "a most solemn contract," two of the companies being headed by the lessee of Judge Lazzelle's property...