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...unauthorized "flying squadron" made up of the prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket in the wall known as Jim Brakeman's Bootery, "smallest shoe store in the world." Jim. a 250-lb. former State footballer, does not close under just any order. And the student body likes Jim pretty well...
Having satisfied the President of his liberality, Alfred Murrah last week took his oath in Oklahoma City as the nation's youngest Federal Judge. He rode into Oklahoma City 18 years ago in a box car, was booted off by a brakeman, worked his way through high school and State University, set himself up in law practice. Aged 33, he promised solemnly to retire...
Working as ticket agent and brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad to earn his way through Boston Latin School and Harvard served slow-spoken, bespectacled, 225-lb. Thomas Charles O'Brien in good stead. Soon after he had his law degree he became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
...National's crack Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
...Governor William Langer (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Lydia Cady Langer ran in her husband's place against Democrat Thomas Moodie. But North Dakota's farmers, for all their past devotion to William Langer, cast their ballots firmly against his wife, chose as their next Democratic Governor the onetime railroad brakeman who today edits the Williston Herald...