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...result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world...
Besides a varied career as an explorer he has written many books, technical and popular. Among his best known works are "Old Mother Earth," and "Science in Search...
Recently three Japanese crabbers, from the fishing vessel Fumi Maru, were said to have attempted to land at Cape Kronotsky, Kamchatka, in a small boat in search for water. Spy scares are thicker than crabs on the cape. A Soviet patrol was reported to have surprised them, shot them down. In Moscow Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota instantly demanded permission for the Japanese Consul at Petropavlovsk to board the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, visit the scene of the affair and make a report. It was refused on the grounds that the Tachikaze was a warship, but the Consul was given permission...
...once "in those mad years [1926-28]'' 15 U. S. bankers were in Belgrade. Jugoslavia, participating in "an undignified scramble'' for an issue. "There were times," he said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked Senator Costigan. "It was not," snapped Partner Kahn. Asked to criticize unethical bankers, he philosophized, "Let him who is without sin first cast a stone...
...Never before was I so astonished in my life." he declared. "He said that I had presumed upon the affection of my colleagues, upon the esteem in which they held me. to insult them at my pleasure. I challenge any Senator here to search this Record in either house for 32 years to show where I ever initiated a dispute. I had the greatest esteem for the Senator from New Mexico. Why, I had so high a regard for his character and intelligence that I advocated his appointment to the President's Cabinet and urged him to accept...