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Died. James Isaac Buchanan, 77, president of Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer Co. and River & R. R. Terminal Co., director of many a utility concern, onetime Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite, longtime member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, holder of other Masonic offices; from a fall on an icy pavement; in Pittsburgh...
...Strikes and mass demonstrations have decreased in frequency throughout India, but in the punjab (north) and Calcutta (east), the districts furthest from Gandhi-land proper (the Bombay Presidency), the Government faces much spontaneous violence: assaults, attempted assassinations, assassinations of British officials, particularly the military. The British Inspector General of Prisons in Bengal (east) was recently assassinated...
...Inspector General. The smalltown bureaucrats of Russia 94 years ago were infuriated and alarmed when a play called Kevizor was produced in their country to expose "all that was bad in Russia." Playwright Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol died in Moscow 16 years later after further distinguishing himself with the great novel Mertvuiya Dushi (Dead Souls), and after exhausting himself on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Producer Jed Harris revived Revizor under its English title last week because its theme, Graft, is still notoriously alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed...
...Inspector General. Aside from their feats of flying the Atlantic cleanly, points of resemblance between Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Dieudonné ("Doudou") Coste are few. But last week arose a new one. Much as Col. Lindbergh became technical adviser for T. A. T. and Pan American Airways. Capt. Coste an nounced himself inspector general of lines (technical adviser) for the French air transport system, Air Union...
Supporting Inspector McWade's story was a memorandum by the late Lt.-Col. V. C. Richmond, who was killed in the crash, filed last July after an unimpressive test flight of the R-IOI. Lt.-Col. Richmond found the hydrogen bags fouled against nuts and bolts at hundreds of points; that padding was ineffective; that the loss of lifting power was about one ton per square inch of hole in twelve hours?"an alarming condition. . . . Until this matter is taken in hand, we cannot recommend any extension of the flying permit...