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...Some people who had been interested in Bellanca were ready to finance Granny Granville on toward bigger things. Then he had bad luck when his two entries cracked up at Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew. Granny Granville closed his Springfield shop, went to Manhattan to look for a job. Last week bad luck dogged him to Spartanburg, S. C. His little Gee Bee crashed to avoid CWA workers who did not know enough to clear the runway of the local airport on which he was trying...
...Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there's nothing to hit, and if one hits it, it doesn't care. Yesterday Britain and Italy demanded that Germany return to the League and to the arms parley: Germany only withdrew in the first place to give her State officials something to do; Britain and Italy don't really care if they ever hear from the Reich again; in fact, if all three countries were to sink rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story...
Satisfaction by arms the Negro Deputy was willing to give, but few minutes later Writer Ferry contemptuously changed his mind, withdrew his challenge "under the circumstances...
...plan their spending. The President announced in his message that on that day he was giving to Watchdogs McCarl & Douglas the power to supervise emergency as well as ordinary expenditures. But on protest of PWAdministrator Ickes that the growls of "unsympathetic" Mr. Douglas would impede allocations, the President withdrew...
When the young mother in New Haven heard this learned exposition about bloods, and saw the putative father cleared by the test, she withdrew her accusation instanter (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). Thus the question of blood tests for paternity could not be appealed for a court of last resort to set a precedent...