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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...restrictions?no member may be a minor, an alien, a bankrupt, or under sentence for a high crime, but otherwise he need fear no ouster except Death...
...civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated its aeronautical expert. His zeal for a high tariff combined with...
...sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts...
Tennessee Great Smoky Mountain Park Commission announced that it would need about a year more to collect its half of the required land. Land-rooted mountaineers refuse to sell their ancestral acres, have to be displaced by slow court condemnation proceedings...
...light planes, the Barling NB3, same ship in which the late Urban Dite-man, Montana rancher, insisted on undertaking another unsuccessful trans-Atlantic passage, was most efficient, highly airworthy. The GeeBee, a newcomer from Springfield, Mass., has full releasable controls so that the pilot need not beat his student unconscious if he "freezes" to them...