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...continually hounded by common folk insisting that he take their savings to invest. Sam didn't want to do it. He had planned on putting his own money into some power companies he thought of forming. But Sam knew that there were unscrupulous persons about all ready to rob the unwary investors and, friend of the common man that he was, he generously gave up the thought of investing his own money and instead accepted the people's money thereby enabling them to acquire pretty stock certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some...
...better get rid of Eddie Morris. He certainly raised a laugh from the crowd on Saturday when he announced the results of the 3200-metre run. Ruby Rob Playfair took the event and Charlie Woodard followed him into the finish...
...same ship and left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they went abroad again. Aviator Switz representing a U. S. aviation instrument company. Said J. N. A. Van Ven Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe...
...melted down into the lead of crime and corruption, most U. S. citizens felt that the decade had left them at least one clean heritage in which they could take national pride. Bankers might be crooks, industrialists might be common gamblers and gangsters might rule politics but nothing could rob commercial aviation of its honest achievements. In that decade the country learned to fly. Laid were the foundations of an air transport system that became the envy of every foreigner. Even Depression could not wilt this fine new flower of U. S. ingenuity and enterprise...
...really regrettable feature of the whole affair is that the men involved can be punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant...