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...been caught but that two youths, Norman Harvey, 26, farmer's son, and Joe Bryant, 19, city employe's son, had been apprehended near a Roanoke bank after Bryant had cashed-or thought he had cashed-a check for $17,000 demanded from Col. Lindbergh to avert harm from his second, six-month-old son, Jon Morrow Lindbergh...
...There may be developments of a disturbing kind in the near future in the U. S.," said the London Times, "though desperate efforts to avert them are being made...
...Roosevelt's efforts at remote control of Congress from Albany week before had produced mostly confusion and misunderstanding between him and his Washington followers. To clear up difficulties and develop a Congressional program which might avert a special session after March, he had summoned to his Manhattan home Speaker Garner, Democratic Senate Leader Robinson, Senators Harrison, Pittman, Byrnes and Hull, Representatives Rainey, McDuffie, Collier, Byrns and Rayburn. Also on hand were Democratic Chairman Farley, Professor Moley of the "Brain Trust" and Col. Howe, the President-elect's alter...
...Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This is the Power Brake Year...
...going to bow our heads after the election; bow in shame that the intelligent, patriotic people of this State did not have the sense or the courage to avert this disgrace? Shall Kansans be greeted by a gibing baaa, the cry of the billy goat, when they walk the streets of other States...