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Since 1898 when it was first discovered, Eros has attracted unusual attention both because of its fickle brightness and because it is one of the earth's nearest neighbors. A cold splinter of rock, estimated to be about 22 miles long and 7 miles thick, Eros sometimes comes within 14,000,000 miles of the earth...
Scholarships totalling $9,675 have been awarded at the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering for the academic year 1937-1938 to the following: L. L. Beranck, of Mt. Vernon, lowa; Louis A. Carapella, of Tuckahoe, New York; Quang Tou Chang, of Kiangsu, China; William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas; Alden P. Edson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel J. Faustman, of Sacramento, California; Charles D. Gates, of Asburnham; Emil C. Jensen, of Burlington, Washington; 1-Lun Liu, of Fukien, China; Clifford M. Mast, of Davenport; Iowa; Iwao Miyake, of Honolulu, Hawait., Charles T. Morrow, of Cloucester...
Congressman Mitchell's stay in Arkansas, darkened by this incident, ended in something of a personal triumph with his speech at Little Rock before a mixed audience to which he was introduced by U. S. District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig. But he was not ready to forget. On his return trip he rode the Jim Crow car of another railroad without being told. When he got back to Chicago, Congressman Mitchell, a lawyer himself, hired another lawyer to see what could be done about...
Last week in Cook County's Circuit Court Congressman Mitchell sued the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Pullman Co. for $50,000. Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records...
What made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate...