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...market has been ripe to break for months, of course, but none the less Dr. Schacht brought about the crash, He called the leading German banking representatives into his office and informed them quietly that they had lent too much money to speculative market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums...
...reception was Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd, first to fly over the North Pole, with his arm in a sling after his recent (TIME, April 25) airplane crash. Also was present Sir Charles Higham (TIME, April 18, May 2), British tea publicity man, who joined the official party as it filed out, had his picture taken with the Naval officers on the City Hall steps...
Breathless, he explained, as with trembling hands he unwrapped, that at last, at long last-crash! At his feet lay the arduously wrought statuette of Sculptor Taylor's old age, in fragments...
...Sapiro-Ford trial the following events were chronicled: Henry Ford was badly battered in an automobile accident. Stuart Hanley, lawyer for Mr. Ford, suffered a back strain. Two of Aaron Sapiro's children came down with scarlet fever. Milton Sapiro (brother) splintered a wrist in another automobile crash. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief counsel for Mr. Ford, went to the Henry Ford hospital with an acute attack of gastrointestinal trouble. ... Superstitious observers whispered that the trial was hoodooed...
...Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along the ground, slewed the ship around but not over. Incredibly, Pilot Chamberlin, hero with Pilot Bert Acosta of the world-record endurance flight (TIME, April 25) had eluded disaster...