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Last week the trial board reconstructed the disaster from the evidence, acquitted Captain Brooks of all four charges. It concluded that the Fairfax was traveling at 3 knots, the Pinthis at 7½ when they collided, that nobody heard any fog signals from the Pinthis, that Captain Brooks handled his...
(3 of 3) the Clayton Act proceedings against Nickel Plate for its control of Wheeling. This is purely a technical maneuver of astute Wabash Chairman William Henry Williams. Though Pennsylvania controls his road, Mr. Williams is generally considered to be acting independently in his merger moves. Both he and the...
Impious Fascist aviators zoomed low over the Vatican last week, performed the air maneuver known as "Jazzing the Crowd." Vexed indeed was His Holiness Pope Pius XI to be thus interrupted while addressing Italian working girls in famed St. Damasus courtyard.
AMIEL'S PHILINE-Translated by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Henri Frederic Amiel's (1821-81) chief claim to fame is that he wrote a diary. Enough of its 16,000 pages have been published to prove its author one of the most fully confessed men in...
The Midshipmen finished half a length ahead of the Engineers, who had about a length and a half lead over the Crimson eight, if the respective times of the boats are considered. The Tech boat, which has improved mightily since it raced against Harvard two weeks ago, showed so much...