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...justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
Demand that an inter-House committee be formed with wider powers, which could bring about efficient contact and cooperation between the Houses was voiced this morning in a letter to the CRIMSON signed by two House chairmen and two House dance committee chairmen...
...been for the present faulty scheme of inter-House cooperation, the misunderstanding need not have arisen, and its unfortunate results could have been avoided. We feel that immediate steps should be taken to establish a committee, with wider powers, which could bring about efficient cooperation between the Houses...
...Soto this year comes in seven body types, two of them convertibles. A massive new frame, approximately 5 in. wider at dash line, 7 in. near the front wheels. reduces sway. Wheelbase has been lengthened from 116 to 119 in., radiator redesigned...