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...reporting to the Prime Minister the investigators indicated their feeling that the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry had looked forward to quitting the Civil Service and becoming Chairman of Imperial Airways, and with this in mind had suggested that "a high honor should be conferred upon [Sir Eric Campbell] Geddes [now Chairman of Imperial Airways] in recognition of his work in establishing Empire air mail services...
...other words a peerage for Sir Eric was to be swapped for a chairmanship for Sir Christopher. This sort of thing is often tolerated in cases where the swapper is an ordinary politician; but, the report released by the Prime Minister declared: "We think the whole course of proceedings shows, on the part of Bullock, a lack of that instinct and perception from which is derived a sure guide by which the conduct of Civil Servants should be regulated...
...with a silver tube in his stomach, the ousted Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry was brilliant, driving, egotistical, efficient and a master of every technique in Government aviation except watching his tongue and saying the regulation thing where other and silkier Civil Servants were concerned. As for Sir Eric Geddes, airmen assumed that he was vexed because he had not got a peerage and still more vexed because the events of last week will make it hard for King Edward to give him one soon. To Sir Christopher's defense leaped The Aeroplane, No. 1 British aviation weekly...
...Ministry gets $15,000. This disclosure jarred the conventional belief of Britons that their Civil Servants are "poorly paid," and constantly get fat offers from British business which they nearly always refuse because of their loyalty to public service. Sir Christopher maintained that if he had succeeded Sir Eric as Chairman of Imperial Airways it would have been at a salary step-down of $5,000 per year...
...Luigi Beccali, winner at Los Angeles in 1932. The U. S. had Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham, all three good enough to beat Bill Bonthron, who held the world's record for 1,500 metres, in the Olympic tryouts last month. Sweden had dependable Eric Ny and Canada had Negro Phil Edwards...