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...Wall Street bomb, hidden in a yellow, horse-drawn cart from which the driver had fled, went off before the U.S. Assay Office on Sept. 16, 1920, killing 39 persons and wounding 400. Police never found out who the driver was. The Candy Box bomb went off one December day in 1929 in the kitchen of the Hall residence in Seat Pleasant, Md. Through Wood's reconstruction of the bomb, police traced it back to a young garage mechanic in Washington...
...Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley popped into town to see for himself, decided to spend $50,000 for exploration work. He soon had crews of geologists and laborers working in the mountains, carpenters building a headquarters and assay office 20 miles from town. It would be months before the real worth of the strike could be determined, but Grants and the Santa Fe were optimistic...
...manner of a man dispensing revealed truth, Publisher Robert R. McCormick rose last week at the Chicago Tribune's annual advertising convention to assay the meaning of the recent Republican victory...
Trying to assay him from his past was like trying to peep through a Venetian blind. John Maragon had come to Washington by a circuitous route. He was an immigrant boy from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
There was evidence last week of the palest smidgen of truth in what he said. It appeared that Frankie was unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite...