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...Ernest Whitworth Marland. As a Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street...
...twins and fiancé rushed under the Hudson River for a Newark, N. J. marriage license. City Clerk Harry S. Reichenstein expelled them, with: "Nothing doing! Moral reasons...
...President was off to sea, and out of the public eye. Aboard the Houston he had only his two young sons Franklin Jr. and John, Rudolph Forster, chief White House clerk, Richard Jervis, chief of the White House Secret Service, his Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich, his Physician Commander Ross T. Mclntire, his Negro Valet Irvin McDuffy, a sack of mail, a special library of 300 books, his seven-foot bed in the Admiral's suite. The entire Press and Public were represented by Associated Pressman Francis M. Stevenson, United Pressman Frederick A. Storm and Universal Serviceman Edward L. Roddan...
...With the clerk of the House last week the Democratic party filed its financial statement, reporting a treasury deficit of $557-757 as of May 31. Still uncancelled was $80,250 lent the Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...
...hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath...