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Weatherman Willis Ray Gregg, born 54 years ago in Phoenix, N. Y. graduated from Cornell in 1903, joined the Weather Bureau next year. He was summoned to Washington headquarters in 1915, made chief of the Aerological Division two years later. Eight years ago he tackled the job of organizing the Bureau's service for commercial airways, has been at it ever since. He makes his debut as Bureau chief this week at the Aeronautical Sciences Institute Convention in Manhattan...
...spirit of Mahan and Brickley inspire once, again every true Harvard man and may enthusiasm rise Phoenix-like from the ashes of indifference and spur the team to a glorious victory. Harvard...
...Phoenix Graft...
...Examiner's story alleged that 15 unnamed Phoenix "politicians, businessmen and others" had been paid $200,000 by unnamed contractors, before the awarding of a $2,000,000 pipeline contract. The Examiner sketched the efforts of a former U. S. District Attorney to lay before a grand jury information obtained by U. S. Internal Revenue investigators. Still no Arizona newspaper followed up the story...
...Arizona newsreaders it might have seemed that the real "Arizona scandal" was the fact that an outside newspaper could advertise for a week in advance a local news sensation without danger of having its scoop spoiled by local courage and enterprise. Leading Arizona papers are Phoenix's two dailies, the Republic and the Gazette, owned by the same company...