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...these cases come before the Court in 1936, they would have been judged by four rock-ribbed conservatives, three equally dependable liberals-with Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts unpredictably on the fence. Currently the known balance is 4-to-3 on the other side, for while Mr. Roosevelt was not able to place an additional member in the court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter...
...winning fight in Cheyenne had not kept both of Publisher McCraken's hands busy. Between 1927 and 1932 he had bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...
Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
...Mainliner" was piloted by a veteran "million-miler" with eight years' experience, most of it on the Cheyenne-Salt Lake City run, noted as a high altitude flyer, a cautious follower of radio instructions, who carefully kept to the right of his radio track. The airliner passed Rock Springs on time at 8:16 p.m., flying normally at 180 m.p.h. Two days later it was found 17 miles off its course-to the left-wrecked on a snowcovered side of a mountain (see cut), both engines and 18 occupants flung far ahead of the ship, Only one passenger tangled...
...record for the same period stood at four airliner crashes, 33 deaths. One morning last week United Air Lines Flight No. i took off from Newark for Oakland, Calif. - an 18-hour, 2,600-mile journey. Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, where passengers changed to a 21-passenger Douglas DC3, and Rock Springs, Wyo. slid by below. A few miles farther along, skimming the mountains at 10,000 ft., veteran Pilot Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there...