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...Morrow, wife of the Governor of the Canal Zone, met Mrs. Belisario Porras, wife of the President of Panama, at an official function a year ago. To their mutual surprise, they found each other interesting and became friends...
...should cooperate, even more closely than they are doing now, but I think they should and will remain under the jurisdiction of the War and Navy Departments respectively. Commercial flying may be controlled by the Department of Commerce or by a separate bureau or board of aviation with police function...
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Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 spoke next and declared that he believed the partisan system, and especially the bi-partisan system of government not only good but necessary and the only one conceivable by which we could make our present institutions function". He warned on the other hand, against an over-emphasis on party and party spirit, and stressed the need of psychology and a thorough understanding of human nature among legislators...
During the first hour of flight their battery regulator gave trouble and only the hardest work enabled them to make it function. The excessive gasoline load carried forced them to fly dangerously low, 400 feet above the ground during the earlier stages of their trip...