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...Cleveland two nights later, in huge Public Hall, where he was nominated last June. Nominee Landon renewed his charges of waste, extravagance, secrecy and political corruption in the administration of relief (see p. 19). Best crack: "On Jan. 3, 1934, the President told Congress: 'If we maintain the course I have outlined, we can confidently look forward to greater employment and a diminution of relief expenses.' We did maintain the course he outlined, but did we get any reduction of relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief...
...test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only thing that promises excitement, thrills and speed." When officials calibrated his instruments, they found that he had climbed...
...been ideally illustrated during the past few months, there is a certain class in the country which President Theodore Roosevelt once referred to as the "lunatic fringe". These slightly unbalanced citizens are not in themselves dangerous, but when gathered behind the standard of such crack-pots as Representative William Lemke, or under the control of vicious demagogues such as Coughlin, Hearst or the late Huey Long, they constitute a serious menace to both law and order and decent government in the United States...
...Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part...