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True it is that defunct Varney Speed Lines operated the first aerial extra-fare passenger service. Regular fare between Los Angeles and San Francisco was $18.95. Varney charged $25, refunded 10? a minute for every minute's delay over 1 hr. 58 min. flying time...
...presence of 750 spectators, the largest audience ever attracted to the Ames finals, the "Root-Pitney" lawyers successfully championed the rights of taxpayers to recover $2,000,000 worth of processing and floor taxes paid under the defunct A.A.A. Counsel for the government was the "Pow-Wow" club...
This morning's announcement by the Ivy A.A. directors demonstrates how vitally necessary is some solution to the problem which the new-defunct League sought to solve. The very excuses which destroyed the naively amateurish hopes of the undergraduates who proposed the League prove that some such plan must be developed if Harvard is to continue to play football on its present basis...
North Dakota's long-nosed Nye, whose defunct Munitions Investigating Committee fostered the Neutrality Act, talked of a new committee to investigate Jersey City's Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
...Montclair, N. J. 300 Yalemen made merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late...