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...skiis for landing on snow. Estimated top speed: 200 m. p. h. with a 400-h. p. Whirlwind: 290 m. p. h. with a 700-h. p. Cyclone (with floats detached and wheels fully retracted). Wing flaps will slow the ship for landing. Major de Seversky, who lost a leg in the War, proposes to enter his "universal" ship in the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race in the National Air Races in July...
...under which President Roosevelt lopped $460,000,000 from the pension rolls. For weeks the White House has been deluged with complaints that such reductions will work a real hardship upon men with battle injuries. Case after case has been cited of veterans who lost an arm, a leg or an eye and who now must take a 50% cut in their compensation. Last week President Roosevelt stole more critical thunder from the bonuseers by announcing...
...descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent to an insane asylum, one with many stab wounds in his arm, another shot through the leg many times...
...onetime file clerk Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King (TIME, May 1): dismissal and award of $156 for costs to Mr. Barton in Manhattan Supreme Court. In jail on Barton's charges of attempted extortion, Mrs. King did not appear in court. ¶ To the injuries (broken arm & leg. internal injuries) of Thomas David Schall Jr., 23, son of Minnesota's blind Senator: an award by a Washington jury of $60,000 plus interest against Standard Oil Co. of N. J., whose truck collided with the Schall automobile near East Riverdale...
...with any guts should." He hesitates, just before being taken away. "He did have a good word to say for you," hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger to reform schools. He spent five years in one, lost a leg trying to escape. Poems which he wrote while imprisoned were praised by Clarence Darrow, Zona Gale. Russian-born, he is now 29. In 1930 he wrote a book called Love In Chicago under the pseudonym of Charles Walt, combined Christian names of his favorite authors-Dickens and Whitman. Author Bein...