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...loving Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, requiring transport lines to provide parachutes for each & every passenger. Representative Celler's measure, he said, grew out of a bad scare he got while flying over Philadelphia. To back up his proposal, he drew liberally from a provocative article in the February Forum called "Death by Air Transport" by Lloyd S. Graham in which compulsory use of parachutes was demanded. Author Graham, onetime publicity writer for Irving Air Chute Co., made these claims in his article...
Before the Graham article appeared the editors of Forum approached Transcontinental & Western Air Inc. (on whose line Knute Rockne and seven others died in a crash last April) with a proposal that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, technical adviser of the company, write a reply for the next issue. The proposal was promptly rejected. But transport operators have not kept their objections to the passenger 'chute idea to themselves. Chief objections...
Speaking at the Old South Meeting House Forum, Sunday afternoon on the topic "Is Russia An Economic Menace?" B. C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, will add one more distinctly up-to-date chapter to the conclusions embodied in his book. "Pan-Sovietism", which appeared last April and which was based on his Lowell lecture series immediately preceding. Since delivering these lectures and having them published Professor Hopper has again been in Russia. He brings to the public for the first time, on Sunday, his economic conclusions drawn from this latest study of Communism in action...
Famous as the first woman in the world to sit in a court of general jurisprudence, Justice Florence E. Allen, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, will speak Sunday evening on "Adventures in Understanding," at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston...
...case began when Editor Mapoles, fined $10 for contempt of court because of a newsstory which offended Judge T. B. Robertson, appeared in court with 17 local lawyers to appeal his case. Soon afterward the following letter appeared in the "People's Forum" of the News...