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Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
...oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government and his withdrawal from the Islands...
Along the borders of the Occupied Territory from Strasbourg in the south to the borders of Holland, watch fires were lighted as a protest against "German war guilt...
...From a B. & O. standpoint, the Wabash ambition for its own system is much as if one of the pawns on a chessboard should crown, itself king and start a game of its own. Much of the Wabash petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission was devoted to protest against absorption by the B. & O. to establishing the Wabash as a potent independent. The Western Maryland was also included in the B. & O. scheme and is at present under B. & O. control. Inclusion of the Wheeling & Lake Erie was a thrust against the Van Sweringens. Inclusion of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia...
...Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty. Under this treaty Germany agreed that its citizens would institute no legal proceedings over U. S. war-time acts...