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This year's Mayors' Conference lacked Detroit's redheaded, vociferous Murphy, now Governor General of the Philippines, who at last year's meeting shouted longest and loudest for a helping hand from the Federal Government. Last week Acting Mayor Couzens had to stay in Detroit to help work out a deal for refunding the city's $352,000,000 debt at lower interest rates with banker-creditors. Nor was New York's O'Brien in the Mayflower's Chinese Room to tell his fellow mayors how he had economized and economized until...
...also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with him at Ensenada where he was vacationing last week. President Rodriguez, an even more enthusiastic golfer, recently helped to arrange a splendid new course at Cuernavaca but golf is not yet Mexico's longest suit in sport. Foreigners almost invariably win Mexican championships. The term "caddy" in Mexican most often means a tennis ball-boy. There were two onetime caddies on the Mexican Davis Cup team which last week played in the American Zone Davis Cup matches at Mexico City. The crowd of 5,000 which...
...season variations. Typical is power production which must be adjusted to iron out the rise in winter (when days are short), the decline in summer. Annual peak is usually a cloudy day in the week of Dec. 22. shortest day of the year. Bottom is not around June 21, longest day. but always July 4. most observed U. S. holiday...
...Aerea (long distance school). The airmen are the pilots, navigators & crews of 24 seaplanes which spade-bearded General Italo Balbo will lead late this month to the Chicago World's Fair. The 6,280-mi. flight will be made via Iceland, Greenland and Montreal in daily hops, the longest of which is 1,560 mi. from Iceland to Labrador. Last week an advance squad of ten Italian mechanics and radiomen left Copenhagen for Reykjavik to set up an overhaul base for the armada. Three airplanes arrived at St. Johns, Nfd. for transshipment to another base at Cartwright, Labrador...
Apropos of the formidable Greek word considered by your correspondent on p. 2 of your issue of April 17, the following word, also from Aristophanes (Ecclesiaztisae 1169), is probably the longest in any language...