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Alpers, Morrison, Bruck and Carter will probably make up the relay team, which might prove a surprise if none of the boys are plagued by injuries. Cal Perkins will be the alternate for this group...
...Opposition. They soon discovered the error of their judgment. Young Bob measured up to the La Follette tradition, but in his own way. He baited Cal Coolidge for not doing enough to aid the farmers. He attacked Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary Andy Mellon for cutting taxes. In 1931, alarmed by mounting unemployment, he warned: "Congress should devote its energies ... to the enactment of a relief program . . . The time has come for Congress to assert its leadership." Young Bob soon took his place in the G.O.P. opposition with such towering progressives as Hiram Johnson and George Norris...
...degree and practicing briefly as an architect, he entered the Foreign Service as third secretary in Madrid. Married to Mary Armour of the meatpacking family, he combined social assurance and a sure sense of protocol with an unspectacular determination to become a competent career man. In 1927 Cal Coolidge borrowed him as White House director of ceremonies, and he stayed on under Herbert Hoover as chief of protocol...
David and his wife were in Tucson, Arizona, last night, on their way to a meeting of the trustees of the Foundation in Pasadena, Cal., a week from today. David did not reveal what the trustees would discuss, although the choice of a new president will probably be the main business of the meeting...
...want me, well, come and get me," growled Craig. Bentley, though already under arrest, shouted to his pal: "Let him have it, Chris!" Chris Craig emptied his Colt automatic, and one of its .45-cal. slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...