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...them into attending sessions once they were elected, he had at last filled all 16 seats in the upper House, all 27 seats in the lower House of his "advisory" Congress of Guam. Last week, hoping to find something more creditable to U. S. imperialism, newshawks dug up Governor Otto C. Dowling's fat report on U. S. Samoa, the single typewritten copy of which had been lying in the files of the Navy Department for seven months, unnoticed. Achievements of the U. S. in Samoa...
...parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...
...escorted by a neighbor. The girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through its paces for a group of scientists and newshawks...
...should like to correct your assumption that I am generally considered an impostor [TIME, March 16]. My polar attainment was recognized by such leading explorers and scientists as Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers...