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...months ago a man named Blackburn and his mother rented a big, white, frame house at Oklawaha, scraggly little citrus town in central Florida. One dawn last week 15 Department of Justice agents tapped quietly at the doors of houses near the newcomers', warned residents to get out of range. Then they surrounded the big, white house and cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides...
Created by the President last summer, D. P. I. was operating last week in a six-room office in the huge Department of Commerce Building. At its head was Katherine C. Blackburn, a dark, plump, capable woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most...
...Blackburn University (Carlinville, Ill.) Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood. . . . . . .Sc.D...
...Washington plumped for a Roosevelt last week. Upon the New York Governor at Albany called Rev. Richard Blackburn Washington, a Hot Springs (Va.) Catholic priest, whose father was the last member of the family born at Mt. Vernon. Father Washington's great-great-grandfather, John Augustine Washington, was the first President's younger brother. Opined Father Washington: "Governor Roosevelt strikes me as the type of man with whom the good of the nation comes first. He is the same sturdy American type as George Washington. In fact I believe George Washington and Franklin Roosevelt may be called...
...body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy on N'Gi's life. Sadly said Zoo Director William M. Mann to the zoo's head keeper: "Well, Blackburn, if we ever get another gorilla, give it a number instead of a name and don't let yourself love...