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...good crews are not so good, but it is an undeniable fact that the rough water, particularly in the Columbia race when the Harvard boat had three or four inches of water in it when it reached the bridge, has prevented Captain Clark's outfit from getting a fair trail under average conditions. During the past week Whiteside has been endeavoring to remedy the washing out or light finish which appeared to be one of the main faults in the Columbia race. The crew is in fine condition, with divisional over, and with good water should be able to perform...
Under reporters' excited queries Director Hoover declared the Department of Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York, flew to New Orleans, told his pilots to be on instant call at an inconspicuous hotel...
Built in three years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit...
When Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg began baying on the trail of recipients of big AAA benefit payments. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tossed out a few dry bones of figures-without-names which by no means satisfied the hunger of the Michigan GOPossibility (TIME, April 20). Last week the Senate's Democratic majority decided that it was the better part of politics to let Senator Vandenberg have his resolution directing the Department of Agriculture to furnish names of all those who had received AAA payments of $10,000 or more per year...
PROFESSOR SALVEMINI has written an economic study of Italian Fascism that is deeply convincing and sparkling with enthusiasm. From the first page he leaps onto the trail of Mussolini's "corporate state" and runs it down, point for point, with a vigor and venom that make his scholarly work one of the most fascinating treatments of modern Italy...